• ǀXam-ka ǃʼē. It is part of the ǃUi branch of the Tuu languages and closely related to the moribund Nǁng language. Much of the scholarly work on ǀXam was...
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    South Africa (category Articles containing ǀXam-language text)
    variety of cultures, languages, and religions. Its pluralistic makeup is reflected in the constitution's recognition of 12 official languages, the fourth-highest...
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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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    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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    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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    Black-backed jackal (category Articles containing ǀXam-language text)
    Indigenous names Linguistic group or area Indigenous name ǀXam g!ui-ten !Xóõ !ào-sè Afrikaans rooijakkals Amharic ቲኩር ጀርባ ቀበሮ (tikur-jerba kebero) Ateso...
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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 storage standard Xẩm, a type of Vietnamese folk music ǀXam language, an extinct language of South Africa This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    dialects, ǀʼAuni and ǀHaasi. Extinct.) ǃKwi Nǁng (A dialect cluster. Moribund.) ǀXam (A dialect cluster. Extinct.) ǂUngkue (A dialect cluster. Extinct.) ǁXegwi...
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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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    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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    ǁXegwi ǀXam Seroa Esuma Gbin Ajawa Auyokawa Basa-Gumna Gamo-Ningi Kpati Kubi Mawa Teshenawa Languages of Africa List of endangered languages in Africa...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • speakers of other (now extinct) ǃKwi languages. ǀXam and ǂKhomani heartland du Plessis, Menan (2019). "The Khoisan Languages of Southern Africa: Facts, Theories...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    San people (redirect from ǀXam people)
    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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    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 !kun texts. A short...
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    U+1DFD. 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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  • Motto of the European Union (category Articles containing explicitly cited English-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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    Unity makes strength (category Articles containing Bulgarian-language text)
    in 2000 to "ǃke e: ǀxarra ǁke", which is "Unity in diversity" written in ǀXam. The motto of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City founded by Dutch settlers...
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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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    Thabo Mbeki to translate new South African national motto into the ǀXam San language 2003: Awarded James Henry Breasted Prize by The American Historical...
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    replaced in 2000 as the national motto of South Africa by "ǃke e꞉ ǀxarra ǁke" (ǀXam: Unity Through Diversity"). South Africa portal Dzala ertobashia "South Africa...
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