ǃXóõ

ǃXóõ

See also: ǃxóõ

English

Etymology

Borrowed from ǃXóõ ǃxóõ.

Pronunciation

• (anglicised) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ/[1]
• Rhymes: -oʊ

Proper noun

ǃXóõ

1. A Khoisan language, known for its large phonemic inventory including complex click consonants.
   • 1985, Anthony Traill, Phonetic and Phonological Studies of ǃXÓÕ Bushman, page 1:

     The ǃXóõ language is spoken by widely scattered groups of San living in southwestern Botswana and a small area of eastern Namibia.

   • 2008, Keith Elwin Johnson, Second Language Acquisition of the Spanish Multiple Vibrant Consonant, page 49:

     […] which studied category formation of ǃXóõ clicks by speakers of a language that has no clicks (American English) and two other unrelated African languages that have clicks, but fewer of them […]

   • 2010, Amana L. Miller, Tongue body and tongue root shape differences in Nǀuu clicks correlate with phonotactic patterns, in Turbulent Sounds: An Interdisciplinary Guide, page 258:

     However, the phonotactic patterning of 'uvular' clicks in ǃXóõ does not comply with the predicted patterns given in this analysis.

   • 2011, Nicholas Evans, Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us, page 53:

     Speakers of ǃXóõ (also known as Taa), gathered together for a storytelling competition at Pos 17, Namibia […]

   • 2011, Michael C. Corballis, The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization, page 76:

     The most phonologically diverse language may be ǃXóõ, spoken by about 4,000 people in Botswana and Namibia, which has somewhere between 84 and 159 consonants.

   • 2011, Intercultural Communication: A New Approach to International Relations and Global Challenges (Houman A. Sadri, Madelyn Flammia), page 129:

     […] and the ǃXóõ language spoken in Botswana and Namibia […]

Synonyms

• Taa

Translations

language

Chinese: Mandarin: 宏语 Czech: k'chong Finnish: ǃxóõ Esperanto: taa Faroese: ǃxóõ n German: ǃXóõ (de) n Hebrew: קהונג‎ Japanese: コン語 Korean: 꽁옹어 (kkong'ong'eo) Russian: къхонг m (kʺxong) Spanish: ǃxóõ Swahili: kiǃxóõ Tamil: இட்டா (iṭṭā) Ukrainian: к'хонг m (kʺxonh) ǃXóõ: ǃxóõ, ǃxóɲa ǂàã

See also

• ǃKung
• Wiktionary’s coverage of ǃXóõ terms

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for ǃXóõ, nmn ⁠
• ǃXóõ language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

1. 1992, Alan Barnard, Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa, page xxii: Finally, it may be of interest to the non-specialist that the pronunciation of clicks in ethnic group names is entirely optional when speaking a non-Khoisan language. Acceptable anglicizations may be produced either by articulating a non-click sound of approximately the same phonological position (e.g. p for ʘ, t for ǀ or ǂ, k for ǁ or ǃ), or by ignoring the click entirely and simply pronouncing the release followed by the remainder of the word. When speaking English, I myself say Kung for 'ǃKung', Gwi for 'Gǀwi', and Gana for 'Gǁana'. […] Ko for 'ǃXõ', Kam for 'ǀXam' […]

Anagrams

• oxo, oxo-