to what extent Central ǃKung is intermediate between them or intelligible with either. Two dialects are identified as being Central ǃKung based on grammatical...
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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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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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Sekele language (redirect from Northern ǃKung)
Angolan ǃKung or Northern ǃKung, and the more southern dialects of northernmost Namibia, which are known as Western ǃKung or North-Central ǃKung, as well...
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Ekoka ǃKung (Ekoka ǃXuun, Ekoka-ǃXû, ǃKung-Ekoka) or Western ǃXuun (North-Central Ju) is a variety of the ǃKung dialect cluster, spoken originally in...
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that occur in Central ǃKung, plus the bilabial clicks of ǂʼAmkoe. They postulate that the ancestral bilabial clicks became dental in ǃKung. However, Starostin...
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retroflex clicks are a family of click consonants known only from the Central ǃKung language or dialect of Namibia. They are sub-apical retroflex and should...
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Northern ǃKung (Sekele), spoken in Angola around the Cunene, Cubango, Cuito, and Cuando rivers (but with many refugees now in Namibia), North-Central ǃKung (Ekoka)...
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ǃKung Sekele / Northern ǃKung (Ekoka) Central ǃKung Juǀʼhoan / Southern ǃKung (ǂKxʼaoǁʼae) ǂʼAmkoe ǂʼAmkoe (ǂHoan)...
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San people (section ǃKung)
the Dobe ǃKung. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-357350-5. Lee, Richard; Irven DeVore (1999). Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers: Studies of the ǃKung San & Their...
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Bitter melon originated in Africa, where it was a dry-season staple food of ǃKung hunter-gatherers. Wild or semi-domesticated variants spread across Asia...
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Tanzania is second in number with some 40–80,000, some monolingual; and the ǃKung language of the northern Kalahari spoken by some 16,000 or so people. Language...
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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 language...
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Upper Paleolithic societies and some modern hunter-gatherers such as the ǃKung and Mbuti peoples. Both Neanderthal and modern human societies took care...
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List of Indigenous peoples (section Central Africa)
Botswana, Kalahari desert, west and southwestern South Africa. Kx'a/Ju–ǂHoan ǃKung/Juu ǂʼAmkoe ǂKxʼao-ǁʼae (Auen) Tuu ǃKwi (!Ui) ǀXam ǂKhomani (Nǀu) Khwe (Khoi...
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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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PMID 24236171. Lee, Richard B. (1976), Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers: Studies of the ǃKung San and Their Neighbors, Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore, eds. Cambridge:...
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immigrating Bantu people began to arrive during the Bantu expansion from central Africa. From the late 18th century onward, Oorlam people from Cape Colony...
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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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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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Clement Doke noted a nasal palatal click with slapped release, [ᵑǂ¡], in ǃKung, analogous to the percussive alveolar clicks of Sandawe. Alveolar click...
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to 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...
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by Al-Biruni of the Islamic Golden Age. As such, anthropology has been central in the development of several new (late 20th century) interdisciplinary...
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offered 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...
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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes ǃKung nǁan [ᵑǁàŋ] = [ʖ̃àŋ] 'marama bean' Hadza exekeke [ʔeᵏǁekeke] = [ʔeʖ̥ekeke] 'to listen' naxhi [naᵏǁʰi] = [naʖ̥ʰi]...
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peoples" films. In 2005, film critic Roger Ebert described the film's central figure, Nanook, as "one of the most vital and unforgettable human beings...
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emotions is an important part of the former artistic tradition, it is not central, or indeed important, in traditional Aboriginal rock art. Robert Layton...
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of a !Kung Woman is not only ethnography, but also a biography of the central character, N!ai, incorporating footage from her childhood through adulthood...
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employed sit-down interviews in many of his films such as Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman and cinéma vérité does not use sit-down interviews. In his early films...
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India. Also, most of the Indian Tamil population lives in the country's central highland region, while the native Tamils typically live in the Northern...
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