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Topic: Akhoe language


  
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Chané language Chané language is an extinct language of Arawakan language.
Context-sensitive language A context-sensitive language is a Chomsky hierarchy.
Gan language Gan is a dialect of the Jiangxi province.
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Akhoe Hai//om to try to establish social relations on their terms (literally) as a means of empowering this marginalized group of people.
Akhoe Hai//om case, healing trance dances are still carried out regularly (3-4 times a month) and they are conducted as a group effort involving men, women and children who sing and dance.
Akhoe Hai//om daily life, such as their landscape terminology that contributes to their outstanding orientation skills or their lunar calendar and a counting system based on body parts are being marginalized and may disappear altogether.
www.mpi.nl /DOBES/WebpageDobes1/SubpagesTeams/SubpageAkhoe/Content/ProjectDescription.htm   (391 words)

  
 DOBES Workshop - Programme and List of Participants
If we cannot prevent a language (or more accurately, the use of a language) from dying, we can at least respect the language by documenting it, that is to say to capture it in its practice and evolution, or in other words, in its culture and history.
When linguists study an endangered language, they tend to concentrate on the study of its grammar, and often leave the relationship between language and culture little explored, although it is now well known that pragmatics and discourse are part of grammar and that speaking is a culturally constructed activity.
Khowar, an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic group spoken by a mountain community in the Hindu Kush-Karakorum tract of northern Pakistan, was facing the danger of extinction due to this mindset in the 20th century.
titus.uni-frankfurt.de /curric/dobes/conf5abs.htm   (5585 words)

  
 Nama language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nama is a Khoisan language spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa.
Nama is a Khoisan language, of the Central South African languages subphylum.
Nama is a national language in Namibia, and doctorates in the study of the language can be earned at the.
eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Nama_language   (614 words)

  
 N/u language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
N/u is a (A family of languages spoken in southern Africa) Khoisan language spoken by the Khomani people in (A republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)) South Africa.
N/u belongs to the Southern African branch of the Khoisan (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language phylum, and to the Southern subbranch of the Southern African branch.
It is a !Kwi language, with /Xam being among its closest relatives.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/N/Nu_language.htm   (356 words)

  
 List of Khoisan languages
This is a list of Khoisan languages, which are indigenous to southern Africa.
Many of the languages listed are endangered, and several are extinct.
Headings given are branches of the Khoisan language family.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_khoisan_languages.html   (58 words)

  
 Inheritance: Take it or leave it Why San people favour pre-mortal inheritance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Speakers of Khoisan languages were most severely hit because the clicks of their language were simply dropped from their names and all kinds of bowdlerised versions of names have entered the identity papers.
Many ?Akhoe Hai//om, who see the state as having appropriated their land and the resources, consider the state pension system as a form of compensation by those who have (forcefully) taken custody of the inheritance.
The alternative, as seen in ?Akhoe Hai//om practices, is a refusal to see the death of a person as a point of transfer from "one generation to the next" that terminates the life process.
www.namibian.com.na /2005/May/columns/05B256687F.html   (2655 words)

  
 Kung-ekoka language - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kung-ekoka or !Xũ or !Kung as it is often spelled in English, is a Northern Khoisan language of Namibia,Angola, and Botswana.
It might be the same as 'Akhoe or Vasekela.
The Herero, Nama and Tswana languages are beginning to be more commonly spoken among the Kung-ekoka, and thehunter-gatherer way of life that is typical of the Khoisan-speaking peoples is being eroded by Bantu and Khoi farmingsettlements.
www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=Kung-ekoka_language   (424 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Kung-ekoka language
Kung-ekoka or !Xũ or !Kung as it is often spelled in English, is a Northern Khoisan language of Namibia, Angola, and Botswana.
Kung-ekoka is a Northern Southern African language, of the Khoisan family.
The Herero, Nama and Tswana languages are beginning to be more commonly spoken among the Kung-ekoka, and the hunter-gatherer way of life that is typical of the Khoisan-speaking peoples is being eroded by Bantu and Khoi farming settlements.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/!Kung   (620 words)

  
 DCP: 19 degrees south, 18 degrees east
The journey was part of a research project (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation) aimed at the multi-media documentation of threatened languages.
The language that we - an anthropologist and two linguists - deal with is that of the ≠Akhoe Hai//om (the symbols are indicating clicks in this Khoisan language) who have lived in this area since pre-colonial times.
In due time a detailed transcribed record of the way in which he and fellow ≠Akhoe Hai//om use their mother tongue in perceiving the landscape and in other matters of everyday life will be available in an online archive.
www.confluence.org /confluence.php?lat=-19&lon=18   (1684 words)

  
 !Kung
Language: The languages of the !Kung are also referred to as !Kung.
The San languages are distantly related to the languages spoken by the Khoikhoin, also called Khoi, or Hottentots.
The San languages are written in a standardized alphabet based on Latin characters with special symbols for the click sounds unique to the Khoisan languages.
cesa.imb.org /peoplegroups/!kung.htm   (1459 words)

  
 =/Hua language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
‡Hõã (‡Hua) is an unclassified Khoisan language of Botswana.
It was once placed in the Southern Khoisan family because it has bilabial clicks, but no other evidence for that classification was ever produced.
It is now suspected that it may actually be in a Northern Khoisan family alongside the Ju languages.
www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/=/Hua_language   (125 words)

  
 Read about Khoisan languages at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Khoisan languages and learn about Khoisan languages ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The languages are becoming increasingly rare; several are known to have become extinct.
Sandawe languages in Tanzania are generally classified as Khoisan, but are extremely distant (linguistically and geographically) from the others.
Kung-ekoka language, which has in excess of 50 click consonants and over 140 separate phonemes, and the !Xóõ language with its giant phoneme inventory and strident and pharyngealized sounds.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Khoisan_languages   (260 words)

  
 Language information - The world speaks Pro-Tran
It is intended to assist you in deciding which languages to use for your website translation.
The result is around 4500 languages, which we separate into "primary" and "secondary".
Languages are classified as "primary" if they are spoken by more than one million persons.
www.pro-tran.com /en/Sprachen-Informationen/Sprachen-Informationen.html   (146 words)

  
 /Xam language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
/Xam, or Xam Kak!’e, is an extinct Khoisan language of South Africa, part of the !Kwi language group.
It was closely related to the N/u language, which still has a few speakers.
Much of the scholarly work on the /Xam language was performed by Dr. W.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xam_language   (167 words)

  
 Language School Explorer - Information about Khoisan_languages
The only widespread Khoisan language is Nama, with a quarter million speakers; Sandawe is second in number with about 40,000, some monolingual; and the Ju language cluster has some 30,000 speakers total.
The Hadza and Sandawe languages of Tanzania are generally classified as Khoisan, but all of the branches are at best extremely distant linguistically.
The only other languages using clicks as phonemes are neighboring Bantu languages in southern Africa, such as Xhosa, Zulu, and Sesotho; the South Cushitic language Dahalo in Kenya, and an extinct Australian Aborigine ceremonial language called Damin.
language.school-explorer.com /info/Khoisan_languages   (373 words)

  
 Nama language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nàmá, previously called Hottentot, is the most populous and widespread of the Khoisan languages.
It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa by the Namaqua, Damara, and Hai‖om, as well as smaller ethnic groups such as the ‡Khomani.
The distribution of the Nama language in Namibia.
www.tocatch.info /en/Nama_language.htm   (703 words)

  
 Vasekela Bushman language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Vasekela Bushman is a (A family of languages spoken in southern Africa) Khoisan language of (A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia form part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa) Namibia.
It might be the same language as (Click link for more info and facts about 'Akhoe) 'Akhoe or (Click link for more info and facts about Kung-ekoka) Kung-ekoka.
See also: (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language, (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/va/vasekela_bushman_language.htm   (146 words)

  
 Speedrun . Halo . Sega Genesis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kung-ekoka is a List of Khoisan languages#Northern Northern Southern African language, of the Khoisan languages Khoisan family.
It may be the same language as Akhoe language Akhoe andor Vasekela Bushman language Vasekela.
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www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Speedrun   (381 words)

  
 University of Namibia - Faculty of Humanities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This volume contains reports on research that was undertaken as part of a project entitled A Dialect Survey of the Major African Languages of Namibia, as well as papers on Namibian languages that were presented at a conference in Windhoek entitled Language Ecology in Africa.
The dialectometrical surveys of the Kavango languages and of Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara) likewise present the lexical data on which the calculations are based.
Evidence is provided that the Damara, contrary to popular claims, did not adopt the language of the Nama.
www.unam.na /faculties/humanities/african_languages/nasblurb.html   (258 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:VAJ
The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
May be the same as 'Akhoe or Kung-Ekoka.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=VAJ   (61 words)

  
 Bushman, Hottentots. Khoisan tribes, languages, Hadza, Nama
It is a broad classification to identify the three main and distinctive language forms.
This is not intended as an essay on Languages, but rather a simple illustration of the range and diversity to be found amongst the great Khoisan family.
The unique clicks used in Khoi languages are varied and complex, with many varieties and applications throughout the different Clans and groups.
www.kalahari-san.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /family-clans.htm   (1142 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Namibia
The number of languages listed for Namibia is 28.
FWE [FWE] 9,936 (1960 census); the largest language of East Caprivi, about 50%.
The language is used by all members of the ethnic group.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Nami.html   (900 words)

  
 EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
www.everytongue.com   (531 words)

  
 The Rosetta Project: the 1000 language archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Send a message to a 'Akhoe language specialist or native speaker who might be able to review or contribute materials.
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic "Rosetta Stone".
We are creating this broad language archive through an open contribution, open review process and we invite you to participate.
www.rosettaproject.org:8080 /live/search/invitecolleague?ethnocode=AKE&langname='Akhoe   (162 words)

  
 Profile of the !Kung Bushman People of Southern Africa
The people in the !Kung group speak the following languages (using the name forms used by Summer Institute of Linguistics):  Akhoe, Kung-Ekoka, Kung-Gobabis, Kung-Tsumkwe and Oung.
Comments: Second languages vary with the area or country of each group.
The people groups and their languages are called by varying names in each locality and by different reporters.
orvillejenkins.com /profiles/kung.html   (1544 words)

  
 Khoisan - Khoesaan
This is a reference list of various names for Khoesaan languages/dialects (Khoesaanyms) that you are likely to encounter in the literature.
The first thing that follows below is a simplified classificatory tree of the Khoesaan languages which roughly indicates genetic relationships (provided you believe in such relationships, that is).
Southern !Kung; West-!khung; Zhu occidental; Ghanzi !Kung; +Au-//eisi; //Kau-//e:n; X'aoxeisi; //''Kau-//en; //Kau-//en; //Au-//en; //Au-//eî; //Au-//ei; Kau-//en; +Kx'au-//'ei; Kx'au-//'eî; +Au-//e:n; +Au-kwe; +Au-//ai; +'Au//bêi; +'Au-//bei; //Kh'au-//en; //Kh'au-//'en; 'Akhoe; //Aukwe; //Au//en; //Au//ei; //Kau-//-en; //Au-kwe; /Aukwe; Aukwe; +Au-san; Auen; Kaukau; Koko; //No!gau; Nogau; Agau.
www.african.gu.se /khsnms.html   (2457 words)

  
 Kaukau language - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Kaukau language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kaukau language - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Kaukau language.
Kaukau may refer to any of several southern African Khoisan languages:
The orginal Kaukau language article can be editet
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Kaukau-language.html   (87 words)

  
 Koko language - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Koko language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Koko language - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Koko language.
The list of the Koko language Authors is
The orginal Koko language article can be editet
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Koko-language.html   (87 words)

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