ǁŨǁʼe language

Extinct ǃKwi language of Southern Africa

ǁŨǁʼe
ǃUi
Native to	South Africa
Region	Theunissen
Extinct	mid 20th century^{[citation needed]}
Language family	Tuu ǃKwi Eastern ǁŨǁʼe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kqu` (partial)
Glottolog	`kuee1238` ǁKuǁe
\|\|Ku\|\|'e [sic] is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ^[1]

ǁŨǁʼe, also rendered ǁKu-ǁʼe or ǁKuǁe,^[2] is an extinct ǃKwi language or dialect of South Africa, spoken near Theunissen in South Africa, and recorded by Dorothea Bleek in 1928. It was labeled "SIIc" in her classification. It is closely related to Seroa, but analysis of the recorded data has not been enough to determine the boundary between language and dialect.^[3]

References

^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 37.
^ Distinguish ǁNg ǃʼe, a form of Nǁng, and Nǀhuǁéi, which is a variety of Taa.
^ Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.