ǃGãǃne language explained

ǃGãǃne
Also Known As:ǃGãǃnge
Region:near Tsolo
Familycolor:Khoisan
Fam1:Tuu
Fam2:ǃKwi
Fam3:Eastern
Iso3:none
Glotto:gane1238
Glottorefname:!Gã!ne
States:South Africa
Map:Lang Status 01-EX.svg
Mapcaption:[1]
Era:attested 1931

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

Notes and References

  1. Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger . UNESCO . 3rd . 2010 . 37.
  2. Anthony Traill, "The Khoisan Languages of South Africa", in Rajend Mesthrie, ed., 1995, Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics
  3. 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.