ǁXegwi language
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| ǁXegwi | ||
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| Spoken in | South Africa | |
| Language extinction | 1988 | |
| Language family | Tuu
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | xeg | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
ǁXegwi, also known as Batwa, is an extinct ǃKwi language of South Africa, near the Swazi border. The last known speaker was killed in 1988.[citation needed]
ǁXegwi lost the abrupt clicks (variations on ǂ and ǁ) found in its relatives. However, it reacquired ǃ from Bantu, either Nguni or Sotho.
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