• Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyɛyi) is a Bantu language spoken by many of the approximately 50,000 Yeyi people along the Okavango River in Namibia and Botswana...
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  • Yeyi may refer to: Ye County, Henan, China, formerly known as Yeyi Yeyi people Yeyi language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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  • the Okavango River where, apparently, the Yeyi language borrowed the clicks from a West Kalahari Khoe language; a separate development led to a smaller...
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    The MaYeyi (also: Yeyi or Bayei) are Bantu-speaking people of north-western Botswana and north-eastern Namibia. The Yeyi immigrated to the area in the...
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    heaviest functional load of click consonants in a Bantu language (approximately tied with Yeyi), with one count finding that 10% of basic vocabulary items...
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    and Otjiherero by 9%. Other native languages include the Bantu languages Setswana, Gciriku, Fwe, Kuhane, Mbukushu, Yeyi; and the Khoisan Naro, ǃXóõ, Kung-Ekoka...
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    Kung-Ekoka Lozi Mbukushu Nambya Naro Ndebele Setswana Shua Tshuwau Tswapong !Xóõ Yeyi Zezuru isiXhosa Lucas, Ceil; Schembri, Adam C. (February 12, 2015). Sociolinguistics...
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    borrowed clicks as part of a sprachbund, as the Bantu Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa etc.) and Yeyi did; and Neither the ancestors of the Juǀʼhoan nor those...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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    The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu...
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  • are only found in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in the neighboring Yeyi language. Kirshenbaum assigns ⟨c!⟩ indifferently...
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  • these as distinct languages, such as Kuvale (R30 > R10). However, Mbukushu, Luyana, and Yeyi, sometimes included with these languages, appear to be more...
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  • Voiced palatal click (category Articles containing Yeyi-language text)
    are only found in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in the neighboring Yeyi language. Ladefoged, Peter; Traill, Anthony (1994-01-01)...
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    Sotho; Yeyi in Botswana; and Mbukushu, Kwangali, and Gciriku in the Caprivi Strip. Clicks are spreading to a few additional neighboring languages. Of these...
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  • various Khoisan languages families of southern Africa and in the neighboring Yeyi language. All Khoisan languages, and a few Bantu languages, have glottalized...
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    Bantu languages include Yeyi (or 'Yei' or 'Yeeyi'),[better source needed] Mbukushu, Gciriku (or 'Dciriku'), Fwe, Totela, and Subiya. The Silozi language is...
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    Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    "The Legend of Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl". Online guide to Mexico. Yeyi Sekʷisƛi David H. Tuggy, The Three Volcanoes Pittman 1954:59 (incomplete)...
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  • Balopi Commission (category Articles containing Tswana-language text)
    the group. For example, a singular Yeyi person is called a Muyeyi, the Yeyi people are called Wayeyi, the Yeyi language is called Shiyeyi. A singular Tswana...
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  • Gǀui dialect (redirect from /Gwi language)
    glottalized nasal clicks is unusual, but has also been reported from ǂʼAmkoe and Yeyi since Nakagawa announced its discovery in Gǀui. The Khute dialect of Gǀui...
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  • Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages such as Yeyi. All Khoisan languages, and a few Bantu languages, have...
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  • Prenasalized consonant (category Articles containing Yi-language text)
    Frank (2008), A Grammar of Yeyi: A Bantu Language of Southern Africa. R. Köppe. Holzknecht, Susanne (1989). The Markham Languages of Papua New Guinea. Pacific...
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  • Nasal dental click (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages, such as Yeyi and Fwe. All Khoisan languages, and a few Bantu languages,...
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    numbers in Botswana and Zambia. Their language is the Ikuhane language (Chikuhane) also known as the Subia language (Chisubia). They get their name from...
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  • (1999). Shanghai Tonetics. Lincom Europa. p. 12. ISBN 978-3-89586-584-8. Zhu Yeyi; Wu Junjie; Lou Qiming; Zheng Xiaojun; Guo Yemin; Zhang Yaozu; Liu Zhenbing;...
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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 Xhosa...
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    languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström, and following the Guthrie classification. Bantu languages Guthrie classification of Bantu languages Classification...
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    Otjiherero by 9%. Other native languages include the Bantu languages Setswana, Gciriku, Fwe, Chikuhane, Mbukushu, Yeyi; and the Khoisan Naro, ǃXóõ, Kung-Ekoka...
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    Page One (bookstore) (category Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text)
    Page One (Chinese: 叶壹堂; pinyin: Yèyī Táng) is a bookstore chain and publisher founded in Singapore by Mark Tan (陈家强), with three branches in mainland China...
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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. Ekoka...
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  • Bird-and-flower painting (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    second school was led by Xu Xi whose paintings style became known as Xu Xi yeyi (lit. 'Xu Xi's unconventional', 'original charm').: 17 His school was typically...
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