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Name in Khoekhoe or Nama
//khâises
ǁkhâises
Name in C1 Hie or Hiet∫ware or Masarwa
kululu
Name in N2 !kun or Ku or Kung
uto:ntoin
Name in S1 /Xam
⎺//k’o
Alternative Title
Oreotragus oreotragus
Title
Klipspringer
Name in Afrikaans
klipspringer
klipbokkie
Contained In
5.4.3
Identifier
51
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in Shangaan and Venda it is ngululu
in Shona it is ngururu, in Ndebele it is igogo, in Swazi ligoka, in Northern Sotho kome.
Spatial Coverage
In this form it was allocated as name for a game farm, lodge and conference centre Dikhololo, some 30 km north-west of Brits in the Northwest Province. Ingogo Heights in Kwa-Zulu-Natal. A place, described as a stoney outcrop on the route between Sabiesnek and Spitskop in the Mpumalanga Province, is called Logogote, and is said to take its name “from the number of klipspringer antelope which made their home there. Klipbokberg in the Northern Cape is a reference to the klipbokkie which is known in Afrikaans as the klipspringer or ‘stone-jumper.
Is Part Of
Hoofed mammals: bovines, giraffe and antelope
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