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    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...
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  • Tuu or TUU may refer to: As a name Tuu (band) (1980s–1999), British ambient band Tuu languages, spoken in Botswana and South Africa Xuan Tuu (1925–1996)...
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    the two Khoisan language isolates, Sandawe and Hadza. The following three are languages from the Khoe family, the Kxʼa family, and the Tuu family, respectively...
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    been suspected for a decade. Along with the Tuu languages and Khoe languages, they are one of three language families indigenous to southern Africa, which...
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    dialect they speak. The Tuu languages are one of the three traditional language families that make up the Khoisan languages. In 2011, there were around...
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  • extinct language (or possibly cluster of languages) of South Africa formerly spoken by the ǀXam-ka ǃʼē. It is part of the ǃUi branch of the Tuu languages and...
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  • Sociolinguistics Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt...
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  • commonly known by the name of its dialect Nǀuu (Nǀhuki), is a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language once spoken in South Africa. It is no longer spoken on a daily basis...
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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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  • between language and dialect. Seroa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented...
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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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  • languages, but clicks remained relatively infrequent, compared to other Tuu languages. It also had a series of uvular plosives not found in other Tuu...
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  • been described as being "absorbed" into the following vowel. Like the Tuu languages, with which it was previously classified, ǂʼAmkoe has five click "types":...
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  • Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language (or languages) by the languages of the Nguni cluster (especially Zulu, Xhosa and Phuthi...
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    speak Tshwa (a Khoe language) and 0.1% speak !Xóõ, a Tuu language (both non-Bantu). English is spoken by 2.8% as their first language, and a small number...
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  • Taa. Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt...
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  • dialects or separate languages has not been determined. Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at...
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    Pharyngealization (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    the respective pharyngealized vowel. In Tuu languages, epiglottalized vowels are phonemic. For many languages, pharyngealization is generally associated...
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  • Nǁng, a member of the Tuu languages in South Africa exemplifies the decline of many Khoisan languages. Speakers of the language were acculturated to Nama...
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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...
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    Records (1996 ed.) as the language with the most consonant phonemes, but since 2017 the !Xóõ language (a member of the Tuu languages) has been considered by...
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    San people (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    South Africa. They speak, or their ancestors spoke, languages of the Khoe, Tuu and Kxʼa language families, and are seen by outsiders as a people only...
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    Bilabial click (category Articles containing uncoded-language text)
    found as phonemes only in the small Tuu language family (currently two languages, one moribund), in the ǂ’Amkoe language of Botswana (also moribund), and...
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    Totus tuus is a Latin greeting which was routinely used[when?] to sign off letters written in Latin, meaning "all yours", often abbreviated as "t.t." (a...
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    accepted into Unicode, at code point U+1DFD. These languages use phonemic strident vowels: Tuu languages Taa (See Taa vowels) ǃKwi (ǃUi) Nǁng (a dialect...
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  • UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-03-17. Treis, Yvonne (1998). "Names of Khoisan languages and their variants". In Schladt...
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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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    labels four of the languages "definitely endangered" and two others "severely endangered". Phonologically, the Ryukyuan languages have some cross-linguistically...
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    official Austronesian languages). By the number of languages they include, Austronesian and Niger–Congo are the two largest language families in the world...
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    has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...
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