Lower Nossob is an extinct

Khoisan language Khoisan ( ) or () is an umbrella term for the various indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen and the Sān peoples. Khoisan populations traditionally speak click languages. Th ...

once spoken along the

Nossob River The Nossob River (also Nosob or Nossop; ''ǂnuse ǃab'', Khoikhoi for black river) is a dry river bed in eastern Namibia and the Kalahari region of South Africa and Botswana. It covers a distance of 740 km and last flooded in 1989. The riv ...

on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. It was closely related to the Taa language. There are two attested dialects: (pronounced ), or , recorded by

Dorothea Bleek Dorothea Frances Bleek (later Dorothy F. Bleek; born 26 March 1873, Mowbray, Cape Town – died 27 June 1948, Newlands, Cape Town) was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen (the San peo ...

, and , recorded by Robert Story. is the word they formerly used for themselves; (or ) is what they called their language. are misspellings. Other renderings of the name are , and .

Doculects

Güldemann (2017) lists the following doculects as being Lower Nossob.

References

External links

ǀʼAuni and ǀHaasi basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
{{Khoisan Tuu languages Extinct languages of Africa Languages of South Africa Languages of Botswana