ǂUngkue dialect
| ǂUngkue | |
|---|---|
| ǁKhʼau | |
| Native to | South Africa |
| Region | Vaal River |
| Extinct | mid 20th century[1] |
Tuu
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gku |
| Glottolog | kxau1242 |
ǂUngkue is an extinct ǃKwi speech variety of the Vaal River region of South Africa, with records of it being spoken in Warrenton. It was recorded by Carl Meinhof, and was closely related to the neighboring ǁKā dialect recorded by Dorothea Bleek; they in turn are related to Nǁng, which has a single remaining speaker as of 2023. ǂUngkue has the Bleek label SIIb.
Like ǀXam, ǂUngkue used 'inclusory' pronouns for compound subjects:[2]
ǃhoeti
lion
nan
and
koro
jackal
nan
and
tuē
ostrich
n
they
a
?PAST
ǁʼa
go
'The lion and jackal and ostrich, they went'.
Doculects
Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculect:[3]
| Label | Researcher | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ǁKhʼau | Meinhof | 1929 | Warrenton-Windsorton | Bleek label SIIb. |
References
- ↑ ǂUngkue at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Meinhof, Carl (1928–1929). "Versuch einer grammatischen Skizze einer Buschmannsprache". Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen. XIX (3): 161–188.
- ↑ 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.