ǂUngkue language
Extinct ǃKwi language of Southern Africa
ǂUngkue | |
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Region | South Africa |
Extinct | mid 20th century [1] |
Tuu
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
gku
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Glottolog |
kxau1242
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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:
ǃhoeti
lion
nan
and
koro
jackal
nan
and
tuē
ostrich
n
they
a
? PAST
‖ʼa
go
ǃhoeti nan koro nan tuē n a ‖ʼa
lion and jackal and ostrich they ?PAST go
'The lion and jackal and ostrich, they went'. (Meinhof 1929)
Doculects
Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculect: [2]
Label | Researcher | Date | Location | Notes |
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ǁKhʼau | Meinhof | 1929 | Warrenton-Windsorton | Bleek label SIIb. |
References
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↑
ǂUngkue
at
Ethnologue
(25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ 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.
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