Kwadi language
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Kwadi is an extinct Khoisan language spoken in the southwest corner of Angola. Three speakers were fluent in Kwadi in 1971, but as of 1981 it was thought to be extinct.
Because Kwadi was poorly recorded, there is not much evidence with which to classify it. It is generally thought to be the most known divergent member of the Khoe family, or, equivalently, linked to the Khoe languages in a "Kwadi-Khoe" family. It appears to have preserved elements of proto-Khoe that we lost in the rest of the family under the influence of ǂHoan-Juu languages in Botswana.
Kwadi was alternatively known by variants of koroka (Ba-koroka, Curoca, Koroka, Ma-koroko, Mu-coroca), Cuanhoca, or Cuepe.
[edit] Dialect
- Zorotua (Va-sorontu)
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[edit] References
- Changing profile when encroaching on hunter-gatherer territory?: towards a history of the Khoe-Kwadi family in southern Africa. Tom Güldemann, paper presented at the conference on Historical linguistics and hunter-gatherer populations in global perspective, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Aug. 2006p
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