ǀXam (pronounced [ǀ͡xam] , in English as /ˈkɑːm/ KAHM) is an extinct language (or possibly cluster of languages) from South Africa formerly spoken by...
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South Africa (category Articles containing ǀXam-language text)
date from around 1050. The southernmost group was the Xhosa people, whose language incorporates certain linguistic traits from the earlier Khoisan people...
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Northern Cape (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
motto in a Khoisan language. Subsequently, South Africa's national motto, ǃKe e ǀxarra ǁke, was derived from the extinct ǀXam language. The Northern Cape...
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one language extant, Nǁng, and that with only one elderly speaker. ǃKwi languages were once widespread across South Africa; the most famous, ǀXam, was...
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Armorial of Africa (category Articles containing ǀXam-language text)
Leone Somalia None Coat of arms of Somalia South Africa ǃke e꞉ ǀxarra ǁke (ǀXam: "Unity In Diversity") (literally "Diverse People Unite") Coat of arms of...
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Wilhelm Bleek (category Linguists of Khoisan languages)
Grammar of South African Languages and his great project jointly executed with Lucy Lloyd: The Bleek and Lloyd Archive of ǀxam and ǃkun texts. A short...
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data storage standard Xẩm, a type of Vietnamese folk music ǀXam language, an extinct language of South Africa Xam Wilson Cartiér (born 1949), writer from...
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List of national mottos (category Articles containing ǀXam-language text)
)[citation needed] South Africa: Diverse people unite or Unity in Diversity (ǀXam: ǃke e꞉ ǀxarra ǁke). South Sudan: Justice, Liberty, Prosperity Spain: Further...
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Coat of arms of South Africa (category Articles containing ǀXam-language text)
in use since 1910. The motto is written in the extinct ǀXam, member of the Khoisan languages, and translates literally to "diverse people unite". The...
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Unity in diversity (category Articles containing ǀXam-language text)
Africa and is currently the national motto, as written in the extinct ǀXam language: ǃke e꞉ ǀxarra ǁke The Gwichʼin Tribal Council representing the Gwichʼin...
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The ǀXam and ǂKhomani (more correctly Nǁnǂe) people were linguistically related groups of San (Bushman) people, their respective languages (ǀXam and Nǁng)...
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Lepsius Standard Alphabet (category Articles containing ǀXam-language text)
Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien and extended it to write African languages, published in 1853,[citation needed] 1854 and 1855, and in a revised edition...
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a single remaining speaker as of 2023. It has the Bleek label SIIb. Like ǀXam, ǂUngkue used 'inclusory' pronouns for compound subjects: ǃhoeti lion nan...
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ǀʼAuni and ǀHaasi. Extinct.) ǃKwi Nǁng (1 speaker. A dialect cluster.) ǀXam (A dialect cluster. Extinct.) ǂUngkue (A dialect cluster. Extinct.) ǁXegwi...
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1988 (although a 2018 report suggests the language may still be spoken in the Chrissiesmeer district) and ǀXam disappeared in the 1910s, but with substantial...
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derived from an unknown language local to the Katkop Mountains) (also known as Rachel or Griet) was a noted ǀXam (San) chronicler of ǀXam culture and knowledge...
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extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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469705 ǂKá̦gára (category Pages with ǀXam IPA)
Astronomical Union's Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature. In the ǀXam language, ǂKá̦gára and ǃHãunu are thought to have been pronounced [ǂ͡káˤɡáɾa]...
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Spurious languages are languages that have been reported as existing in reputable works, while other research has reported that the language in question...
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San people (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
individual nations, such as ǃKung (also spelled ǃXuun, including the Juǀʼhoansi), ǀXam, Nǁnǂe (part of the ǂKhomani), Kxoe (Khwe and ǁAni), Haiǁom, Ncoakhoe, Tshuwau...
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Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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include the descendants of speakers of other (now extinct) ǃKwi languages[citation needed]. ǀXam and ǂKhomani heartland "The Khomani San people of the Northern...
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Strident vowel (section Languages)
U+107B4. These languages use phonemic strident vowels: Tuu languages Taa (See Taa vowels) ǃKwi (ǃUi) Nǁng (a dialect cluster; moribund) ǀXam (a dialect cluster...
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Click consonant (redirect from Click language)
are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa. Examples familiar to English-speakers...
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Kraaifontein (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
from the |Xam word !gauru, ‘crow, white crow’, and kamma, therefore its ǀXam name was !gaurukamma. In 1869 sub-division of farm land started in the area...
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eighty-seven legends, myths and other traditional stories of the ǀXam Bushmen in their now-extinct language. The stories were collected through interviews with various...
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Motto (category Articles containing French-language text)
the 17th century. South Africa: ǃke e: ǀxarra ǁke (Unity in diversity), ǀXam. Shire of Shetland: Með lögum skal land byggja (By law shall the land be...
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from the original on 4 July 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2024. 5th century AD. "ǀXam". Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2024....
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Motto of the European Union (category Articles containing Bulgarian-language text)
South Africa adopted a similar motto (ǃke e꞉ ǀxarra ǁke) in ǀXam (a sleeping San language), which also translates in English as "Unity in diversity"....
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Lucy Lloyd (category Linguists of Khoisan languages)
was the creator, along with Wilhelm Bleek, of the 19th-century archive of ǀXam and !Kung texts. Lucy Catherine Lloyd was born to a Welsh family in Norbury...
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