ǂUngkue language

ǂUngkue
ǂUngkue
Native to	South Africa
Region	Vaal River
Extinct	mid 20th century
Language family	Tuu ǃKwi Ghaap-Khalahari Danster ǃUi ǂUngkue; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gku
Glottolog	kxau1242

Last updated: 2025-08-02 01:35:53

ǂUngkue language

ǂUngkue is an extinct ǃKwi language or dialect of the Vaal River region of South Africa, with records of it being spoken in Warrenton. It was recorded by Carl Meinhof, and was closely related to the neighboring ǁKā language (or dialect) recorded by Dorothea Bleek; 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:

ǃhoeti

lion

nan

and

koro

jackal

nan

and

tuē

ostrich

n

they

a

?PAST

‖ʼa

go

'The lion and jackal and ostrich, they went'. (Meinhof 1929)

Doculects

Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculect:^[2]

Label	Researcher	Date	Location	Notes
ǁKhʼau	Meinhof	1929	Warrenton-Windsorton	Bleek label SIIb.

References

↑ ǂUngkue at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ 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.

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[e25-1] ǂUngkue at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[Güldemann2019-2] 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.

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