ǂUngkue language explained

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:

Doculects

Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculect:[1]

References

Notes and References

  1. 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.