Taa language

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ǃXóõ ( ǃXóõ )
Spoken in	Botswana , Namibia
speaker	2550
Linguistic classification	Tuu languages Taa languages ǃXóõ
Official status
Official language in	-
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	khi
ISO 639-3	nmn

Taa or Tuu or !Xóõ [ k!xõː˥ ] is a Khoisansprache . It belongs to the Tuu language family .

ǃXóõ is spoken by around 2000 ǃXóõ in Botswana (as of 2011) and by around 550 people (as of 2014) in Namibia .

Like all Khoisan also features !Xóõ through a large sound inventory from. A total of 159 phonemes are differentiated, 83 of which are clicks . The five basic clicks ( bilabial , dental , alveolar , palatal , lateral ) can each be modified in around 17 different ways.

The linguist Anthony Traill created a dictionary of the language.

Dialects

• Auni ( also ǀAuni , ǀAuo )
• Kakia ( also Masarwa )
• Kiǀhazi
• Ngǀuǁen ( also Nuǁen , ǀUǁen , Ngǀuǀei , ǀNuǁen , ǁUǁen )
• Nusan ( also Ngǀusan , Nu-san , Noosan )
• Xatia ( also Katia , Kattea , Khatia , Vaalpens , ǀKusi , ǀEikusi )
• ǃKwi

Extinct

• Ngamani
• ǀNuts
• ǀʼAuni
• Kiǀhazi

literature

• Anthony Traill: Phonetic and Phonological Studies of ǃXóõ Bushman (= sources for Khoisan research. Volume 1). Helmut Buske, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-87118-669-4 .
• Anthony Traill: A ǃXóõ Dictionary (= sources on Khoisan research , Volume 9). Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-927620-56-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ute Dieckmann, Maarit Thiem, Erik Dirkx et al: Scrapping the Pot, San in Namibia Two Decades After Independence. Legal Assistance Center / Desert Research Foundation of Namibia, Windhoek 2014, ISBN 978-99945-61-52-0 , p. 23.
2. ↑ ǃXóõ. Ecthnologue.com. Retrieved June 11, 2020.