Meaning of ǃKung | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A group of Bushmen people living in the Kalahari Desert.
2. A Khoisan language spoken in Namibia, Angola, and South Africa, famous for its click consonants.

Equivalents

Examples

“Given the early sex play, I will hazard a guess that there are few ǃKung virgins, male or female, at puberty.”

“[…] and that ǃKung women are married so young because ǃKung men try to marry them before the Bantu do!”

“From the peaceful and gentle ǃKung San Bushmen to the urbane and civilised Montaigne, from folk legend to Freudian complex, from Medusa to the Blue Angel, men blame women for their discomforts and disappointments.”

“The San-speaking ǃKung of southern Africa are nearly always chosen to exemplify the forager strategy.”

“The San-speaking ǃKung of Botswana (the “Bushmen” of old) are presented as a distinct, “other,” and apparently primordial “people.””

“(Once known as "Bushmen," the ǃKung, today, are also known as the Nyae Nyae or the Jo-hoansi, pronounced zhu-wahnsi.) The ǃ symbol in the ǃKung language is a click sound made with the tongue.”

“The ǃ in the word ǃKung is an orthographic symbol denoting a "click" sound. The ǃKung language, aside from sharing many of the same sounds found in all languages, has four distinct clicks […]”

“Harpending spoke ǃKung because of his previous fieldwork in the area, […]”

“None of the ideologues spoke ǃKung, […]”

“In Epembe, Oonduda and Uusilo very few people could understand and even fewer could speak ǃKung. They expressed their sorrow at this loss.”

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