Table of Contents
31 relations: Alveolar click, Angola, Angolan Civil War, Articulatory phonetics, Bantu languages, Click consonant, Cuando River, Cuíto, Cunene River, ǃKung languages, Dialect, Dialect continuum, Diaspora, Eenhana Constituency, Ejective-contour click, Ekoka ǃKung, Etosha Pan, Glottalized click, Grootfontein, Kavango Region, Kimberley, Northern Cape, Kxʼa languages, Lateral click, Linguistics, Namibia, Okavango River, Ovamboland, Pulmonic-contour click, Rundu, South Africa, Spoken language.
- Kx'a languages
- Languages of Angola
- Languages of Namibia
Alveolar click
The alveolar or postalveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.
See Sekele language and Alveolar click
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
See Sekele language and Angola
Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War (Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002.
See Sekele language and Angolan Civil War
Articulatory phonetics
The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics that studies articulation and ways that humans produce speech.
See Sekele language and Articulatory phonetics
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.
See Sekele language and Bantu languages
Click consonant
Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa.
See Sekele language and Click consonant
Cuando River
The Cuando River (or Kwando in the non-colonial spelling) is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip and into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana.
See Sekele language and Cuando River
Cuíto
Cuíto, formerly known as Silva Porto, is a city and municipality in central Angola, capital of Bié Province.
Cunene River
The Cunene (Portuguese spelling) or Kunene (common Namibian spelling) is a river in Southern Africa.
See Sekele language and Cunene River
ǃKung languages
ǃKung (ǃXun), also known as Ju, is a dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three languages. Sekele language and ǃKung languages are Kx'a languages, languages of Angola and languages of Namibia.
See Sekele language and ǃKung languages
Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
See Sekele language and Dialect
Dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be.
See Sekele language and Dialect continuum
Diaspora
A diaspora is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
See Sekele language and Diaspora
Eenhana Constituency
Eenhana is an electoral constituency in the Ohangwena Region of Namibia, on the border to Angola.
See Sekele language and Eenhana Constituency
Ejective-contour click
Ejective-contour clicks, also called sequential linguo-glottalic consonants, are consonants that transition from a click to an ejective sound, or more precisely, have an audible delay between the front and rear release of the click.
See Sekele language and Ejective-contour click
Ekoka ǃKung
Ekoka ǃKung (Ekoka ǃXuun, Ekoka-ǃXû, ǃKung-Ekoka) or Western ǃXuun (North-Central Ju) is a variety of the ǃKung dialect cluster, spoken originally in the area of the central Namibian–Angolan border, west of the Okavango River, but since the Angolan Civil War also in South Africa. Sekele language and Ekoka ǃKung are Kx'a languages.
See Sekele language and Ekoka ǃKung
Etosha Pan
The Etosha Pan is a large endorheic salt pan, forming part of the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin in the north of Namibia.
See Sekele language and Etosha Pan
Glottalized click
Glottalized clicks are click consonants pronounced with closure of the glottis.
See Sekele language and Glottalized click
Grootfontein
Grootfontein (great spring, named after the nearby hot springs) is a city with 26,839 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of central Namibia.
See Sekele language and Grootfontein
Kavango Region
Kavango (before 1998: Okavango) was one of the thirteen regions of Namibia until it was split into the Kavango East and Kavango West Regions in 2013.
See Sekele language and Kavango Region
Kimberley, Northern Cape
Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
See Sekele language and Kimberley, Northern Cape
Kxʼa languages
The Kxʼa languages, also called Ju–ǂHoan, is a language family established in 2010 linking the ǂʼAmkoe (ǂHoan) language with the ǃKung (Juu) dialect cluster, a relationship that had been suspected for a decade. Sekele language and Kxʼa languages are Kx'a languages, languages of Angola and languages of Namibia.
See Sekele language and Kxʼa languages
Lateral click
The lateral clicks are a family of click consonants found only in African languages.
See Sekele language and Lateral click
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
See Sekele language and Linguistics
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
See Sekele language and Namibia
Okavango River
The Okavango River (formerly spelt Okovango or Okovanggo), is a river in southwest Africa.
See Sekele language and Okavango River
Ovamboland
Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Ovambos, in South West Africa (present-day Namibia).
See Sekele language and Ovamboland
Pulmonic-contour click
Pulmonic-contour clicks, also called sequential linguo-pulmonic consonants, are consonants that transition from a click to an ordinary pulmonic sound, or more precisely, have an audible delay between the front and rear release of the click.
See Sekele language and Pulmonic-contour click
Rundu
Rundu is the capital and largest city of the Kavango-East Region in northern Namibia.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
See Sekele language and South Africa
Spoken language
A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language.
See Sekele language and Spoken language
See also
Kx'a languages
- Central ǃKung
- Ekoka ǃKung
- Juǀʼhoan language
- Kxʼa languages
- Sekele language
- ǂKxʼaoǁʼae
- ǂʼAmkoe language
- ǃKung languages
Languages of Angola
- Angolan Portuguese
- Bolo language
- Chokwe language
- Dciriku language
- Hakaona language
- Ibinda
- Kimbundu
- Kongo language
- Kuvale language
- Kwadi language
- Kwangali language
- Kwanyama dialect
- Kxʼa languages
- Languages of Angola
- Lari people (Congo)
- Luchazi
- Luimbi language
- Lunda language
- Luvale language
- Mbali language
- Mbukushu language
- Mbunda language
- Mpinda language
- Ngambwe language
- Ngoya language
- Nkumbi language
- Nyaneka language
- Nyengo language
- Ovambo language
- Portuguese language
- Ruund language
- Sama language (Angola)
- Sekele language
- Swahili language
- Umbundu
- Vili people
- Yaka language (Congo–Angola)
- Zemba language
- Zorotua dialect
- ǃKung languages
Languages of Namibia
- Afrikaans
- Bwile language
- Dciriku language
- Franconian (linguistics)
- Fwe language
- German language
- German language in Namibia
- Hakaona language
- Herero language
- Khoekhoe language
- Khoemana
- Kuhane language
- Kwangali language
- Kwanyama dialect
- Kxʼa languages
- Languages of Namibia
- Lozi language
- Luyana language
- Mbowe language
- Mbukushu language
- Mbunda language
- Namibian Black German
- Namibian Sign Language
- Namlish
- Ovambo language
- Sekele language
- Taa language
- Tswana language
- Tsʼixa language
- Umbundu
- Yeyi language
- Zemba language
- ǂAakhoe dialect
- ǃKung languages
References
Also known as !'O!Kung, !'O!Kung language, !'O-!khung language, !O!kung language, !O!un language, !O!ung, !O!ung language, ISO 639:gfx, ISO 639:mwj, ISO 639:oun, ISO 639:vaj, Maligo, Maligo language, Mangetti Dune !Kung, Mangetti Dune !Xung, Mangetti Dune !Xung language, Northern !Kung, Northern !Xun, Northern !Xung, Northern !Xuun, Northern Ju, Northern Ju language, Northern Juu, Northern ǃKung, Northwestern !Kung, Northwestern !Kung language, Northwestern ǃKung, Northwestern ǃKung language, Oung language, San language (Angola), Sekela language, Sekele, Sekele dialect, Vasekela, Vasekela Bushman language, Vasekele, Vasekele language, ǃʼOǃKung, ǃʼOǃKung language.