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    The Kxʼa /ˈkɑː/ KAH languages, also called Ju–ǂHoan /ˌdʒuːˈhoʊæn/ joo-HOH-an, is a language family established in 2010 linking the ǂʼAmkoe (ǂHoan) language...
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  • with the ǂʼAmkoe language, ǃKung forms the Kxʼa language family. ǃKung constituted one of the branches of the putative Khoisan language family, and was...
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    words from the two Khoisan language isolates, Sandawe and Hadza. The following three are languages from the Khoe family, the Kxʼa family, and the Tuu family...
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  • speakers of Tuu languages, absorbing features of their languages. This has resulted in Tuu and Kx'a substrata in the Khoekhoe languages. The expansion...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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  • Gobabi ǃKung (Gobabis-ǃXû), is an eastern dialect of the Southern ǃKung language, spoken in Botswana (the settlements of Groote Laagte, East Hanahai, Kanagas...
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  • be related to the Juu languages by Honken and Heine (2010), and these have since been classified together in the Kxʼa language family. ǂʼAmkoe is moribund...
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  • based on the word ju 'people', which is also applied to the language cluster. (see ǃKung languages for variants of those names). When a front vowel /e/ or...
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  • occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa, in the Australian ritual language Damin, and for /mw/ in some of the languages neighboring Shona,...
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    San people (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    Africa. The Bushmen speak, or their ancestors spoke, languages of the Khoe, Tuu, and Kxʼa language families, and can be defined as a people only in contrast...
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  • of the Proto-Palatal Click in Juu Languages". Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics. Comparative ǃKung...
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    Khoisan (category Articles containing Khoekhoe-language text)
    from a common proto-language, but are today split into at least three separate and unrelated language families (Khoe-Kwadi, Tuu and Kxʼa). It has been suggested...
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  • Khoe languages in a Khoe–Kwadi family. It preserved elements of proto-Khoe that were lost in the western Khoe languages under the influence of Kxʼa languages...
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  • consonants share the distribution of clicks in these languages. Most languages of the Khoesan families (Tuu, Kxʼa and Khoe) have four click types: { ǀ ǁ ǃ ǂ }...
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    Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages, is a family of languages spoken...
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    for themselves. The ǃKung language, commonly called Ju, is one of the larger click languages and belongs to the Kxʼa language family, loosely categorised...
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    Sudanic or Nilo-Saharan Kx'a, around five languages, with various dialects, spoken in Southern Africa South Omotic, around five languages; previously classified...
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  • Khoisan languages of Africa have them (the Khoe, Tuu, and Kx'a language families, Sandawe, and Hadza), as does Dahalo and the Bantu languages Yeyi and...
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  • ǃKung at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Heine, B. and Honken, H. 2010. "The Kxʼa Family: A New Khoisan Genealogy" Archived 2018-11-02 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • are widespread in southern Africa, being found in all languages of the Khoe, Tuu, and Kx'a language families, though they are unattested elsewhere. They...
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  • attested from all Khoisan languages of southern Africa (the Khoe, Tuu, and Kx'a language families), as well as from the Bantu language Yeyi from the same area...
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    southern African Khoisan languages (the Khoe, Kx'a, and Tuu families), where they are extremely common, and in Bantu languages such as Yeyi, Zulu and Xhosa...
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    Bilabial click (category Articles containing uncoded-language text)
    Labial clicks only occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa, and in the Australian ritual language Damin. Labial clicks may have arisen historically...
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  • dʃχʼ/. The Grootfontein ǃKung language has a relatively large phonological inventory: Five vowel sounds in the ǃKung languages are realized as [i e a o u]...
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  • three Khoisan language families—Khoe, Kx'a and Tuu—are tonal. Most languages of the Nilo-Saharan family are tonal. Numerous tonal languages are widely spoken...
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  • from all Khoisan languages of southern Africa (the Khoe, Tuu, and Kx'a language families), as well as (reportedly) from the Bantu language Yeyi from the...
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  • not apply. Tenuis bilabial clicks are only known to occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa. Afrika und Übersee. D. Reimer. 2005. pp. 93–94...
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    demonstrably related to any other language family, though they do share a many similarities to the languages of the Kxʼa family. This is generally thought...
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  • Voiced bilabial click (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    dichotomy does not apply. Voiced bilabial clicks only occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa. These sounds are extremely rare and many non-native...
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  • Dual (grammatical number) (category Articles with text in Slavic languages)
    three genders and three grammatical numbers. The non-Khoe Khoesan languages (Tuu and Kx'a), do not have dual number marking of nouns. The category of dual...
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