Social:ǃGãǃne language

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Short description: Extinct Tuu language of South Africa
ǃGãǃne
RegionSouth Africa
Extinctearly 20th century
Tuu
  • ǃKwi
    • Eastern
      • ǃGãǃne
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologgane1238[1]

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

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "!Gã!ne". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gane1238. 
  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.