| Kgalagadi | |
| Also Known As: | Kalahari |
| Nativename: | 'SheKgalagadi |
| States: | Botswana |
| Speakers: | 65,400 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
| Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
| Fam5: | Bantoid |
| Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
| Iso3: | xkv |
| Glotto: | kgal1244 |
| Glottorefname: | Kgalagadi |
| Lingua: | 99-AUT-eh incl. varieties 99-AUT-eha to 99-AUT-ehc |
| Guthrie: | S.311 (ex-S.31d) |
| Ethnicity: | Kgalagadi |
| Fam7: | Bantu |
| Fam1: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam8: | Southern Bantu |
| Fam9: | Sotho–Tswana |
Kgalagadi is a Bantu language spoken in Botswana, along the South African border. It is spoken by about people. In the language, it is known as Shekgalagari.
Kgalagadi (also rendered Kgalagari, Kgalagarhi, Kgalagari, Khalagari, Khalakadi, Kxhalaxadi, Qhalaxarzi, Shekgalagadi, Shekgalagari, Kqalaqadi) is most closely related to Tswana, and until recently was classified as a dialect of Tswana.
Dialects include Shengologa, Sheshaga, Shebolaongwe, Shelala, Shekhena, Sheritjhauba and Shekgwatheng.
| Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Close-mid | pronounced as /ink/ ~ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ ~ pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Open-mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ |
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||||||
| Stop | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| aspirated | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||||
| aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||||
| voiced | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | |||||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||||||