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ǃGãǃne language

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Region
  
South Africa

Language family
  
Tuu ǃKwi ǃGãǃne

Glottolog
  
gang1269

Extinct
  
early 20th century

ISO 639-3
  
included in kqu

ǃGãǃne (!Gã!nge) is an extinct language of the ǃKwi family, once spoken near Tsolo and in Umtata District in South Africa, south of Lesotho. The only material on the language is 140 words collected from two semi-speakers (rememberers) in 1931.

Like ǁXegwi, ǃGãǃne is considered an "outlier" among the !Kwi languages by Güldemann (2005, 2011). Ethnologue and Glottolog count it as a dialect of Seroa, though the two have no demonstrable connection apart from being in the !Kwi family.

References

ǃGãǃne language Wikipedia