Social:ǁKā language

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Short description: Extinct ǃKwi language of Southern Africa
ǁKā
RegionSouth Africa
ExtinctLate 20th century
Tuu
  • ǃKwi
    • Ghaap-Khalahari
      • Danster ǃUi
        • ǁKā
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologkaaa1239  ǁKã[1]

ǁKā is an extinct ǃKwi language or dialect of the Vaal River region of South Africa . It was spoken in the Warrenton area, and recorded by Dorothea Bleek. It is closely related to the neighbouring ǂUngkue, but whether they were dialects or separate languages has not been determined.[2]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "ǁKã". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kaaa1239. 
  2. 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.