ǂUngkue | |
Region: | Vaal River |
Extinct: | mid 20th century |
Ref: | e25 |
Familycolor: | Khoisan |
Fam1: | Tuu |
Fam2: | ǃKwi |
Fam3: | Ghaap-Khalahari |
Fam4: | Danster ǃUi |
Iso3: | gku |
Glotto: | kxau1242 |
Glottorefname: | ǂUngkue |
States: | South Africa |
ǂUngkue is an extinct ǃKwi language or dialect of the Vaal River region of South Africa, with records of it being spoken in Warrenton. It was recorded by Carl Meinhof, and was closely related to the neighboring ǁKā language (or dialect) recorded by Dorothea Bleek; they in turn are related to Nǁng, which has a single remaining speaker as of 2023. It has the Bleek label SIIb.
Like ǀXam, ǂUngkue used 'inclusory' pronouns for compound subjects:
Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculect:[1]