ǂUngkue is an extinct ǃKwi language or dialect of the

Vaal River The Vaal River ( ; Khoemana: ) is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source near Breyten in Mpumalanga province, east of Johannesburg and about north of Ermelo and only about from the Indian Oce ...

region of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

, with records of it being spoken in Warrenton. It was recorded by

Carl Meinhof Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (23 July 1857 – 11 February 1944) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages. Early years and career Meinhof was born in Barzwitz near Rügenwalde in the Province of Po ...

, and was closely related to the neighboring

ǁKā language ǁKā is an extinct ǃKwi language or dialect of the Vaal River region of South Africa. It was spoken in the Warrenton area, and recorded by Dorothea Bleek Dorothea Frances Bleek (later Dorothy F. Bleek; born 26 March 1873, Mowbray, Cape To ...

(or dialect) recorded by

Dorothea Bleek Dorothea Frances Bleek (later Dorothy F. Bleek; born 26 March 1873, Mowbray, Cape Town – died 27 June 1948, Newlands, Cape Town) was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen (the San peo ...

; they in turn are related to Nǁng, which has a single remaining speaker as of 2023. It has the Bleek label ''SIIb''. Like ǀXam, ǂUngkue used 'inclusory' pronouns for compound subjects:

Doculects

Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculect:Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.

References

External links

* https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/African/Khoisan/%C7%82Ungkue%3B%20Versuch%20einer%20Grammatischen%20Skizze%20einer%20Buschmannsprache%20%28Meinhof%29%20%281928%29.pdf {{Khoisan Extinct languages of Africa Tuu languages Languages of South Africa Languages of Lesotho stub