Social:Lower Nossob language

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Short description: Extinct Khoisan language of Botswana
Lower Nossob
Native toSouth Africa , Botswana
Extinct2005[1]
Tuu
  • Taa–Lower Nossob
    • Lower Nossob
Dialects
  • ǀʼAuni
  • ǀHaasi
Language codes
ISO 639-3nsb
Glottologlowe1407[2]

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.

There are two attested dialects: ǀʼAuni (pronounced /ˈn/ 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.[3]

Doculects

Güldemann (2017) lists the following doculects as being Lower Nossob.[4]

Label Researcher Date Notes
ǀʼAuni D. Bleek 1937 Bleek label SIV.
Khatia D. Bleek (notes) = ǂʼEinkusi? Bleek label SIVa.
Kiǀhazi Story (notes) = ǀHaasi. Bleek label SIVb.

References

  1. "Lower Nossob" (in en). UNESCO. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-131.html. 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Lower-Nosop". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lowe1407. 
  3. Treis, Yvonne (1998). "Names of Khoisan languages and their variants". in Schladt, Mathias. Language, identity, and conceptualization among the Khoisan. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. pp. 463‐503. ISBN 978-3-89645-143-9. 
  4. 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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