southern Angola), and Botswana. The names ǃKung (ǃXun) and Ju are variant words for 'people', preferred by different ǃKung groups. This band level society used...
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Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three languages. Together with the ǂʼAmkoe language, ǃKung forms the Kxʼa language family. ǃKung constituted...
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Adrienne Miesmer documented the lives of the ǃKung San people between the 1950s and 1978 in Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman. This film, the account of a woman...
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Kung or Küng may refer to: ǃKung people ǃKung language Kung (Haida village), an historical village of the Haida people of the Queen Charlotte Islands...
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Xu (section People and characters)
a name for the ǃKung group of Bushmen; may also refer to the ǃKung language or the ǃKung people ǃXu (god), the creator god of the ǃKung Xu, a minor character...
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ǂKxʼauǁʼein (/ˈkaʊkeɪn/ KOW-kayn), or Gobabi ǃKung (Gobabis-ǃXû), is an eastern dialect of the Southern ǃKung language, spoken in Botswana (the settlements...
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Nǃxau ǂToma (category People from Otjozondjupa Region)
"Namibia's most famous actor". Nǃxau was a member of the ǃKung people, one of several peoples known as Bushmen. N!xau was a Namibian who starred in the...
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Juǀʼhoan language (redirect from Southern ǃKung language)
[ʒuᵑ̊ǀʰwã]), also known as Southern or Southeastern ǃKung or ǃXun, is the southern variety of the ǃKung dialect continuum, spoken in northeastern Namibia...
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heart and make him gentle." — Tomazo, "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari" ǃKung people § Hunting rites Law of Jante Tall poppy syndrome Eller, Jack David. "Cultural...
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Khoisan (redirect from Khoisan people)
in 2010, combining the ǂʼAmkoe (ǂHoan) language with the ǃKung (Juu) dialect cluster. ǃKung includes about a dozen dialects, with no clear-cut delineation...
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reported have formerly hunted elephants using large pitfall traps. The ǃKung people of southern Africa are reported to have hunted elephants via surrounding...
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Sirius and Canopus in particular to impart good fortune or skill. The ǃKung people of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana held Canopus and Capella to be the...
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twin was killed or hidden by midwives of wealthier mothers; and by the ǃKung people of the Kalahari Desert.: 160–61 The Kikuyu, Kenya's most populous ethnic...
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you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman is a documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall. The...
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sometimes been depicted as peaceful 'noble savages'. The ǃKung people were described as 'The Harmless People' in a popular work by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas in...
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to carry the Sun on its back. An alternative account comes from the ǃKung people, whose folklore tells that the jackal received the burn on its back as...
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and named Gǃòʼé ǃHú. The name Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is from the Juǀʼhoansi (ǃKung) people of Namibia. Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is the beautiful aardvark girl of Juǀʼhoan...
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stands for hierarchical and aggressive societies. Kungic comes from the ǃKung people of Southern Africa, who Fog uses to exemplify an egalitarian and peaceful...
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San languages speaking peoples: Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Kalahari desert, west and southwestern South Africa. Kx'a/Ju–ǂHoan ǃKung/Juu ǂʼAmkoe ǂKxʼao-ǁʼae...
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southern African Khoisan languages ǃKung people, of southwestern Africa Xionites, also known as Hunni, once a people from Central Asia who spoke an Iranian...
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40–80,000, some monolingual; and the ǃKung language of the northern Kalahari spoken by some 16,000 or so people. Language use is quite strong among the...
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Kwadi language (redirect from Kwadi people)
distinction might have been lost by the time of the last recordings. /ǀ’h/ is a ǃKung loan. Consonants in parentheses derive from Bantu loans. Intervocalic /mb...
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Namibia to work as a cook. In the 1980 documentary film Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman, directed by John Marshall, footage of the filming of The Gods Must...
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people lived in small, egalitarian band societies similar to those of Upper Paleolithic societies and some modern hunter-gatherers such as the ǃKung and...
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pair up with voiceless manners. Ekoka ǃKung has an additional manner, ˀᵑꞰ. Grootfontein and Mangetti Dune ǃKung, on the other hand, have a substantially...
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Tribal art is the visual arts and material culture of indigenous peoples. Also known as non-Western art or ethnographic art, or, controversially, primitive...
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pre-historic times by the Khoi, San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since...
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In addition, it is found among a small number of food-foraging peoples such as the ǃKung tribe of Africa and the Inuit (Inuit-Yupik) for whom it is named...
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Royal ǀUiǀoǀoo (category Living people)
2019[update] he is enrolled at Unisa for a law degree. ǀUiǀoǀoo is an ethnic ǃKung from Tsumkwe's Juǀʼhoan-speaking community, for which he is also a senior...
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List of contemporary ethnic groups (redirect from List of peoples)
G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by status: List of Indigenous peoples List of diasporas List of stateless nations regional lists: Ethnic groups...
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