Four wordlists of extinct Cape Khoekhoe from the 18th century

The Khoekhoe language, a member of the Khoisan family, was widely spoken by Southern Africa pastoralists and hunters-gatherers a few centuries ago. Apart from varieties still spoken in the 20th century (such as Nama in Namibia), very little is known of the dialect spoken by the Cape Khoekhoe. This p...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9abc52cbd3364a7c89e7b69eb404e9922021-11-19T03:53:10ZFour wordlists of extinct Cape Khoekhoe from the 18th century10.32473/sal.v34i2.1073290039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/9abc52cbd3364a7c89e7b69eb404e9922005-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107329https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThe Khoekhoe language, a member of the Khoisan family, was widely spoken by Southern Africa pastoralists and hunters-gatherers a few centuries ago. Apart from varieties still spoken in the 20th century (such as Nama in Namibia), very little is known of the dialect spoken by the Cape Khoekhoe. This paper is a critical edition of four manuscript wordlists collected at the end of the 18th century by Robert Jacob Gordon, then commandant of the Dutch garrison at the Cape. These lists refer to several local varieties ofthe Cape Khoekhoe language, collected just before it became extinct, and display two distinct systems of clicks rendering.Francois-Xavier Fauvelle-AymarLibraryPress@UFarticleKhoekhoeNamaCape KhoekhoePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 34, Iss 2 (2005)
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language EN
FR
topic Khoekhoe
Nama
Cape Khoekhoe
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle Khoekhoe
Nama
Cape Khoekhoe
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Francois-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar
Four wordlists of extinct Cape Khoekhoe from the 18th century
description The Khoekhoe language, a member of the Khoisan family, was widely spoken by Southern Africa pastoralists and hunters-gatherers a few centuries ago. Apart from varieties still spoken in the 20th century (such as Nama in Namibia), very little is known of the dialect spoken by the Cape Khoekhoe. This paper is a critical edition of four manuscript wordlists collected at the end of the 18th century by Robert Jacob Gordon, then commandant of the Dutch garrison at the Cape. These lists refer to several local varieties ofthe Cape Khoekhoe language, collected just before it became extinct, and display two distinct systems of clicks rendering.
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title Four wordlists of extinct Cape Khoekhoe from the 18th century
title_short Four wordlists of extinct Cape Khoekhoe from the 18th century
title_full Four wordlists of extinct Cape Khoekhoe from the 18th century
title_fullStr Four wordlists of extinct Cape Khoekhoe from the 18th century
title_full_unstemmed Four wordlists of extinct Cape Khoekhoe from the 18th century
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