Lower_Nossob_language

Lower Nossob language

Lower Nossob language

Extinct Khoisan language of Botswana

Lower Nossob is an extinct Khoisan language once spoken along the Nossob River on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. It was closely related to the Taa language.

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There are two attested dialects: ǀʼAuni (pronounced /ˈaʊniː/ OW-nee) (ǀʼAuo), recorded by Dorothea Bleek, and ǀHaasi, recorded by Robert Story. ǀʼAuni is the word they formerly used for themselves; ǀʼAuo (or ǀʼAu) is what they called their language. ǀauni, ǁauni, Auni are misspellings. Other renderings of the name ǀHaasi are Kʼuǀha꞉si, Kiǀhasi, and Kiǀhazi.[2]

Doculects

Güldemann (2017) lists the following doculects as being Lower Nossob.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Lower Nossob". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  2. [2]
    Treis, Yvonne (1998). "Names of Khoisan languages and their variants". In Schladt, Mathias (ed.). Language, identity, and conceptualization among the Khoisan. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. pp. 463–503. ISBN 978-3-89645-143-9.
  3. [3]
    Güldemann, Tom (2017). "Casting a Wider Net over Nǁng: The Older Archival Resources". Anthropological Linguistics. 59 (1): 71–104. doi:10.1353/anl.2017.0002.
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