San languages
E538822
San languages are a group of indigenous Southern African languages, many featuring distinctive click consonants, spoken by the San (Bushmen) peoples.
Statements (96)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indigenous language group
ⓘ
language family ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Bantu languages
NERFINISHED
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Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Khoekhoe languages ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
ethnographic records
ⓘ
linguistic grammars ⓘ phonetic studies ⓘ |
| endangeredIn |
Angola
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Botswana NERFINISHED ⓘ Namibia NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
areally related features
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click consonants ⓘ complex phoneme inventories ⓘ complex verb morphology in some languages ⓘ elaborate demonstrative systems in some languages ⓘ elaborate kinship terminology ⓘ endangered status ⓘ extensive borrowing among neighboring languages ⓘ high degree of linguistic diversity ⓘ language shift to dominant regional languages ⓘ large consonant inventories ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ primarily unwritten languages ⓘ rich system of click accompaniments ⓘ rich system of click types ⓘ small speaker populations per language ⓘ tonal languages ⓘ use of alveolar clicks in some languages ⓘ use of aspirated clicks in some languages ⓘ use of complex syllable structures ⓘ use of contour tones in some languages ⓘ use of dental clicks in some languages ⓘ use of ejective consonants ⓘ use of elaborate spatial deixis ⓘ use of evidentiality in some languages ⓘ use of extensive consonant clusters in some languages ⓘ use of gender distinctions in pronouns in some languages ⓘ use of glottalized clicks in some languages ⓘ use of glottalized consonants ⓘ use of ideophones ⓘ use of inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural in some languages ⓘ use of labial clicks in some languages ⓘ use of lateral clicks in some languages ⓘ use of nasal clicks in some languages ⓘ use of nasalized vowels ⓘ use of noun class–like systems in some languages ⓘ use of palatal clicks in some languages ⓘ use of pharyngeal consonants in some languages ⓘ use of prenasalized clicks in some languages ⓘ use of register tones in some languages ⓘ use of uvular consonants in some languages ⓘ use of voiced clicks in some languages ⓘ |
| hasExampleLanguage |
!Xóõ
NERFINISHED
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Juǀʼhoan NERFINISHED ⓘ Khwe NERFINISHED ⓘ Kxoe ⓘ Naro NERFINISHED ⓘ Nǀuu NERFINISHED ⓘ Taa NERFINISHED ⓘ Tsʼixa NERFINISHED ⓘ ǀXam NERFINISHED ⓘ ǂHoan NERFINISHED ⓘ ǂʼAmkoe NERFINISHED ⓘ ǃXuun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasExtinctLanguage |
many other poorly documented varieties
ⓘ
ǀXam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Angola
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Botswana NERFINISHED ⓘ Namibia NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Zambia NERFINISHED ⓘ Zimbabwe NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Mozambique ⓘ |
| researchedBy | field linguists ⓘ |
| researchedFor |
anthropological linguistics
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ language typology ⓘ phonetics ⓘ phonology ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Bushmen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Southern Africa ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Khoisan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
dominance of Afrikaans
ⓘ
dominance of Bantu languages ⓘ dominance of English ⓘ formal schooling in other languages ⓘ socioeconomic marginalization of San peoples ⓘ urbanization ⓘ |
| usedBy |
hunter-gatherer communities
ⓘ
pastoralist communities in some areas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ritual practices
ⓘ
storytelling traditions ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge transmission ⓘ |
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