Danster ǃUi
| Danster ǃUi | |
|---|---|
| Region | South Africa |
| Extinct | Late 20th century[1] |
Tuu
| |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gku ǂUngkue |
| Glottolog | dans1240 |
Danster ǃUi is an extinct ǃKwi language of the Vaal River region of South Africa. It comprised the ǂUngkue dialect (also rendered ǂKunkwe) of the Warrenton area, recorded by Carl Meinhof, and the neighboring ǁKā dialect recorded by Dorothea Bleek.
Doculects
Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculects as being Danster ǃUi.[2]
| Label | Researcher | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ǂUngkue | Meinhof | 1928–1929 | Warrenton-Windsorton, near Kimberley | Mislabeled ǁkhau; it is not ǁKhʼau, which is variety of Nǀuu.) D. Bleek label SIIb. |
| ǁKā | D. Bleek | > 1920 | Warrenton |
Güldemann is agnostic as to whether these form a single language, but they are accepted as such by Glottolog.
References
- ↑ Danster ǃUi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ 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.
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