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Sekele language

Index Sekele language

Sekele is the northern language of the ǃKung dialect continuum. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 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.

  2. Kx'a languages
  3. Languages of Angola
  4. 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.

See Sekele language and Cuíto

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.

See Sekele language and Rundu

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

Languages of Angola

Languages of Namibia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekele_language

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.