N||ng
N|uu; N|u; N/u; Khomani; ǂKhomani; /Nusan; =|Khomani;
Tuu; Kwi
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Laaste man wat N/u pr
Disappearing Nu langu
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The last male speaker of N||ng passed away in March 2013. There are now five elderly female speakers: three sisters in Upington and two women in Olifantshoek. There are a few semi-speakers who remember words.
2013
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-27.935574, 22.734146; -28.446959, 21.270905;
Three speakers live in Upington and two live in Olifantshoek.
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2007
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2010
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12 (2005 Crawhall), decreasing. Ethnic population: 500 (1998 Nigel Crawhall, South African San Institute)
2009
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"All N|uu speakers have shifted to a primary mode of communication of Afrikaans."
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2005
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"Spoken by eleven elderly people in Siyanda district in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa and across the border in Kgalagadi District of Botswana."
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"Spoken by eleven elderly people in Siyanda district in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa and across the border in Kgalagadi District of Botswana."
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"Three N|u speaking elders confirmed that the primary perceived cause of language loss was ecological. The farmers, who controlled their lives and welfare, were hostile to them. Their language was stigmatised along with their identity. They were like immigrants suddenly surrounded by a foreign tongue and living amongst other people, even though they were still present on their ancestral lands... There was not a shift in values or identity for the old people. The world changed under their feet and there was no obvious reason to teach the language to their children. None of the elders ever confided to me that it was a strategy of theirs to hide their culture and language from the children. Nonetheless, this was the cumulative effect."
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2011
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-27.935574, 22.734146; -28.446959, 21.270905; -26.902936, 20.683308
"Four [speakers] stay in the vicinity of Upington, two in the Andriesvale area and one in Olifantshoek."
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"Four [speakers] stay in the vicinity of Upington, two in the Andriesvale area and one in Olifantshoek."
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