ǂKxʼaoǁʼae
ǂKxʼaoǁʼae | |
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Gobabis ǃKung | |
ǂKxʼauǁʼein | |
Native to | Namibia, Botswana |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2003)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ktz |
Glottolog | kxau1241 |
ELP | ǂKx'au||'ein |
ǂKxʼaoǁʼae (English pronunciation:
There are numerous spellings of the name, including ǁAuǁei, ǁXʼauǁʼe, and Auen. Endonyms are Juǀʼhoan(si), ǃXun in Namibia and ǂXʼaoǁʼaen (predominantly in Botswana), meaning "northern people" in Naro. It also goes by the names Gobabis ǃKung and Kaukau (which can take the noun class prefixes in Tswana to give Mokaukau for one person, Bakaukau for the group and Sekaukau for the language).
In Namibia, ǂKxʼaoǁʼae tends to refer literally to the ǃXuun speakers to the north in the Caprivi area. With the exception of a few cultural traits, speakers of ǂKxʼaoǁʼae and those of Juǀʼhoan both in Botswana and Namibia argue that they are one and the same people, speaking one language, with some dialectal attributes.
The non-Latin characters used by the language predominantly refer to
The limited data on these dialects is poorly transcribed, but as of 2015 fieldwork is in progress.
Notes
- ISBN 9780195139778.
Further reading
- Pratchett, Lee (2012) "A synchronic and historical analysis of devoicing in complex click clusters." Paper presented at Linguistisches Kolloquium, Berlin.
- Pratchett, Lee (2014) "Towards an analysis of tense, aspect and modality in ǂKxʼaoǁʼae." Paper presented at Linguistisches Kolloquium, Berlin.