Seroa, or ǃUi, is a ǃKwi language or dialect of

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that went extinct in the 19th century. It was spoken in the area of

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. ''Seroa'' is the

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name, literally "language of the ''Baroa'' (Bushmen)"; the people called themselves ''ǃUi'' (that is, ''ǃKwi''), which just means 'people'. The language is labeled ''SIId'' in Dorothea Bleek's classification.

Doculects

Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculects.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. Seroa was closely related to ǁŨǁʼe and Boshof ǃUi, but analysis of the recorded data has not been enough to determine the boundary between language and dialect.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaal-Orange Language Extinct languages of Africa Tuu languages Languages of South Africa Languages of Lesotho stub