Gaika dialect

E136070

The Gaika dialect is a regional variety of the Xhosa language traditionally associated with the amaGqika subgroup in South Africa.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gaika dialect canonical 1

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Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Xhosa language
associatedEthnicity Xhosa people
associatedGroup amaGqika
belongsTo Southern Bantu languages
country South Africa
hasAlternativeName Gcaleka Xhosa
surface form: Gaika Xhosa

Gqika dialect
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
click consonants
noun class system
hasGrammaticalFeature subject–verb–object basic word order
hasPhonologicalFeature clicks borrowed from Khoisan languages
tonal language
isDialectOf Xhosa
surface form: Xhosa language
ISO639-3 xho
languageFamily Bantu languages
Nguni languages
Niger–Congo languages
partOf Xhosa
surface form: Xhosa language
region Eastern Cape
spokenIn South Africa
subclassOf Xhosa dialect
usedBy Nguni people
surface form: amaGqika subgroup of Xhosa
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Xhosa hasDialect Gaika dialect