Lower Nossob language

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Lower Nossob
Native to South Africa, Botswana
Region Nossob River
EthnicityǀʼAuni
Extinct 2005 [1]
Tuu
  • Taa–Lower Nossob
    • Lower Nossob
Dialects
  • ǀʼAuni
  • ǀHaasi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nsb
Glottolog lowe1407
Lang Status 01-EX.svg
ǀʼAuni is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [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.

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There are two attested dialects: ǀʼAuni (pronounced /ˈaʊniː/ OW-nee), or 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]

LabelResearcherDateNotes
ǀʼAuniD. Bleek1937Bleek label SIV.
KhatiaD. Bleek(notes)= ǂʼEinkusi? Bleek label SIVa.
KiǀhaziStory(notes)= ǀHaasi. Bleek label SIVb.

References

  1. ↑ "Lower Nossob". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. UNESCO . Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  2. ↑ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 37.
  3. ↑ Treis, Yvonne (1998). "Names of Khoisan languages and their variants". In Schladt, Mathias (ed.). 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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