ǃGãǃne language
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| ǃGãǃne | |
|---|---|
| ǃGãǃnge | |
| Native to | South Africa |
| Region | near Tsolo |
| Era | attested 1931 |
Tuu
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | gane1238 |
 !Gan!ne is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [1] | |
ǃGãǃne (ǃGãǃnge) is an extinct language or dialect of the ǃKwi family which was once spoken near Tsolo and in Umtata District in South Africa, south of Lesotho. It is very poorly attested, with the only material being 140 words collected from two semi-speakers in 1931.[2]
Like ǁXegwi, ǃGãǃne is considered an "outlier" among the ǃKwi languages by Güldemann (2005, 2011), but agnostically listed as just another variety of ǃKwi in Güldemann (2019).[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 37.
- ^ Anthony Traill, "The Khoisan Languages of South Africa", in Rajend Mesthrie, ed., 1995, Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics
- ^ Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.
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