Social:ǃGãǃne language

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Short description: Extinct Tuu language of South Africa
ǃGãǃne
ǃGãǃnge
Native toSouth Africa
Regionnear Tsolo
Eraattested 1931[1]
Tuu
  • ǃKwi
    • Eastern
      • ǃGãǃne
Language codes
ISO 639-3(covered by ser Seroa)
Glottologgane1238[2]
!Gan!ne is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
[3]

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.[4][1][5]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anders, H. (1934–1935). "A Note on a South Eastern Bushman Dialect". Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen XXV: 81–89. 
  2. ↑ 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. 
  3. ↑ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 37. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026. 
  4. ↑ Anthony Traill, "The Khoisan Languages of South Africa", in Rajend Mesthrie, ed., 1995, Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics
  5. ↑ Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.