Casting a wider net over N||ng
N||ng is a moribund language complex that is a member of the Tuu family and used to be spoken widely across the southern portion of the Kalahari in the north of South Africa. While its modern linguistic remnants have been studied intensively, there are nevertheless many gaps in our knowledge about Nññng. This article surveys the older records that began to be collected in the second half of the nineteenth century, arguing that these can inform our modern analysis of the linguistic and nonlinguistic data and complement our overall perception of this extinct ethnolinguistic group and its wider geographical and historical context.
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Title
Casting a wider net over N||ng
author
Güldemann, Tom
Is Part Of
Anthropological linguistics, 59 (1): 71-104
isbn
1944-6527
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Identifier
LIT247
Description
N||ng is a moribund language complex that is a member of the Tuu family and used to be spoken widely across the southern portion of the Kalahari
in the north of South Africa. While its modern linguistic remnants have been studied intensively, there are nevertheless many gaps in our knowledge about Nññng. This article surveys the older records that began to be collected in the second half of the nineteenth century, arguing that these can inform our modern analysis of the linguistic and nonlinguistic data and complement our overall perception of this extinct ethnolinguistic group and its wider geographical and historical context.
in the north of South Africa. While its modern linguistic remnants have been studied intensively, there are nevertheless many gaps in our knowledge about Nññng. This article surveys the older records that began to be collected in the second half of the nineteenth century, arguing that these can inform our modern analysis of the linguistic and nonlinguistic data and complement our overall perception of this extinct ethnolinguistic group and its wider geographical and historical context.
Date Issued
2017
Subject
Khomani language-Kalahari Desert
Extinct languages
Type
Article
Language
English
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
topic
Language
