Taa language

Taa, also known as ǃXóõ (also spelled ǃKhong and ǃXoon),The Taa pronunciation of "ǃXóõ" can be heard in, repeated from 0′16″ to 0′24″. ^[1]

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Languages of Botswana
Languages of Namibia
Tuu languages

Adjective

An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.

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Adposition

Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for).

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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Agreement (linguistics)

In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.

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Allophone

In phonology, an allophone (from the Greek ἄλλος,, 'other' and φωνή,, 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor phonesused to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language.

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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.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Anthony Traill (linguist)

Anthony Traill (27 February 1939 – 27 April 2007) was a South African linguist, phonetician, and professor.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

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Bilabial click

The bilabial clicks are a family of click consonants that sound like a smack of the lips.

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Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound.

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Causative

In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997).

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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.

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Consonant cluster

In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel.

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Contour (linguistics)

In phonetics, contour describes speech sounds that behave as single segments but make an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.

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Creaky voice

In linguistics, creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) refers to a low, scratchy sound that occupies the vocal range below the common vocal register.

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ǂʼAmkoe language

ǂʼAmkoe, formerly called by the dialectal name ǂHoan (Eastern ǂHȍã, ǂHûân, ǂHua, ǂHû, or in native orthography ǂHȍȁn), is a severely endangered Kxʼa language of Botswana. Taa language and ǂʼAmkoe language are languages of Botswana.

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Dental click

Dental (or more precisely denti-alveolar) clicks are a family of click consonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

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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.

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Diphthong

A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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DOBES

DOBES (or DoBeS, an acronym for the German name Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen "Documentation of Endangered Languages") is an international organization and project.

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Dorothea Bleek

Dorothea Frances Bleek (later Dorothy F. Bleek; born 26 March 1873, Mowbray, Cape Town – died 27 June 1948, Newlands, Cape Town) was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen (the San people) of Southern Africa.

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Egressive sound

In human speech, egressive sounds are sounds in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

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Ejective consonant

In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream.

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Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal

Ernst Oswald Johannes Gotthard Gotthilf Westphal (Khalavha in Venda, South Africa, 1919 - Bredasdorp near Cape Town, South Africa, 27 November 1990) was a South African linguist and an expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages.

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Ethnonym

An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Functional load

In linguistics and especially phonology, functional load, or phonemic load, is the collection of words that contain a certain pronunciation feature (a phoneme) that makes distinctions between other words.

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Gǀui dialect

Gǀui or Gǀwi (pronounced in English, and also spelled ǀGwi, Dcui, Gcwi, or Cgui) is a Khoe dialect of Botswana with 2,500 speakers (2004 Cook). Taa language and Gǀui dialect are languages of Botswana.

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Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.

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Ghanzi District

Ghanzi (sometimes Gantsi) is a district in western Botswana, bordering Namibia in the west and extending east into much of the interior of the country.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

See Taa language and Glottal consonant

Glottalization

Glottalization is the complete or partial closure of the glottis during the articulation of another sound.

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Hardap Region

Hardap is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Mariental.

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Homorganic consonant

In phonetics, a homorganic consonant (from homo- "same" and organ "(speech) organ") is a consonant sound that is articulated in the same place of articulation as another.

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Ingressive sound

In phonetics, ingressive sounds are sounds by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose.

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Jinhui dialect

The Jinhui dialect, also known as Dônđäc, is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the town of, China in Shanghai's suburban Fengxian District.

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Juǀʼhoan language

Juǀʼhoan, also known as Southern or Southeastern ǃKung or ǃXun, is the southern variety of the ǃKung dialect continuum, spoken in northeastern Namibia and the Northwest District of Botswana by San Bushmen who largely identify themselves as Juǀʼhoansi. Taa language and Juǀʼhoan language are languages of Botswana.

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Kalahari Basin

The Kalahari Basin, also known as the Kalahari Depression, Okavango Basin or the Makgadikgadi Basin, is an endorheic basin and large lowland area covering approximately — mostly within Botswana and Namibia, but also parts of Angola, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Kgalagadi District

Kgalagadi is a district in southwest Botswana, lying along the country's border with Namibia and South Africa.

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Khoisan languages

The Khoisan languages (also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg.

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Kweneng District

Kweneng is one of the districts of Botswana and is the recent historical homeland of the Bakwena people, the first group in Botswana converted to Christianity by famed missionary David Livingstone.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Lateral click

The lateral clicks are a family of click consonants found only in African languages.

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

See Taa language and Lateral consonant

Lower Nossob language

Lower Nossob is an extinct Khoisan language once spoken along the Nossob River on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. Taa language and Lower Nossob language are languages of Botswana and tuu languages.

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Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nǁng language

Nǁng or Nǁŋǃke, commonly known by the name of its only spoken dialect Nǀuu (Nǀhuki), is a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language once spoken in South Africa. Taa language and Nǁng language are tuu languages.

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Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.

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Omaheke Region

Omaheke (Sandveld) is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, the least populous region.

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Palatal click

The palatal or palato-alveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found, as components of words, only in southern Africa.

See Taa language and Palatal click

Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

See Taa language and Palatal consonant

Pharyngealization

Pharyngealization is a secondary articulation of consonants or vowels by which the pharynx or epiglottis is constricted during the articulation of the sound.

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Phonation

The term phonation has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics.

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Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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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 Taa language and Pulmonic-contour click

Reduplication

In linguistics, reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

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Relative clause

A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative clause refers to the noun or noun phrase.

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Segment (linguistics)

In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech".

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Serial verb construction

The serial verb construction, also known as (verb) serialization or verb stacking, is a syntactic phenomenon in which two or more verbs or verb phrases are strung together in a single clause.

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Seroa language

Seroa, or ǃUi, is a ǃKwi language or dialect of South Africa that went extinct in the 19th century. Taa language and Seroa language are tuu languages.

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Sonorant

In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages.

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Southern District (Botswana)

Southern is one of the districts of Botswana.

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Sprachbund

A sprachbund (Sprachbund, lit. "language federation"), also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence, or diffusion area, is a group of languages that share areal features resulting from geographical proximity and language contact.

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Strident vowel

Strident vowels (also called sphincteric vowels) are strongly pharyngealized vowels accompanied by an (ary)epiglottal trill, with the larynx being raised and the pharynx constricted.

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Subject–verb–object word order

In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third.

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Tenuis consonant

In linguistics, a tenuis consonant is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Tuu languages

The Tuu languages, or Taa–ǃKwi (Taa–ǃUi, ǃUi–Taa, Kwi) languages, are a language family consisting of two language clusters spoken in Botswana and South Africa. Taa language and Tuu languages are languages of Botswana.

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Uvular consonant

Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants.

See Taa language and Uvular consonant

Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

See Taa language and Velar consonant

Velarization

Velarization or velarisation is a secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant.

See Taa language and Velarization

Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

See Taa language and Voice (phonetics)

Voiced velar nasal

The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek ἆγμα 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

See Taa language and Voiced velar nasal

References

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

Also known as !Xo language, !Xóõ, !Xóõ language, !Xoon language, !Xoong language, !Ô language, Auni dialect, East Taa, East Taa language, ISO 639:nmn, Kakia dialect, Masarwa dialect, N/amani language, N/gamani language, Ng/amani language, Ng/u//en language, Ngamani language, Ngǀuǁen language, Nǀgamani language, Nǀuǁ'en language, Ta'a language, Taa, Tsasi, Tsasi language, West !Xoon, West !Xoon language, West ǃXoon, Western ǂHoan, Western ǂHuan, Xóõ, Xoo language, Xoo!, ǃXoon, ǃXoon language, ǃXóõ, ǃXóõ language.

, Mora (linguistics), Namibia, Nasal consonant, Nǁng language, Noun, Omaheke Region, Palatal click, Palatal consonant, Pharyngealization, Phonation, Phoneme, Plosive, Pulmonic-contour click, Reduplication, Relative clause, Segment (linguistics), Serial verb construction, Seroa language, Sonorant, Southern District (Botswana), Sprachbund, Strident vowel, Subject–verb–object word order, Tenuis consonant, The New York Times, Tone (linguistics), Tuu languages, Uvular consonant, Velar consonant, Velarization, Voice (phonetics), Voiced velar nasal.

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Languages of Botswana

Languages of Namibia

Tuu languages

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