Lower Nossob is an extinct

Khoisan language Khoisan , or (), according to the contemporary Khoekhoegowab orthography, is a catch-all term for those indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who do not speak one of the Bantu languages, combining the (formerly "Khoikhoi") and the or ( in t ...

once spoken along the

Nossob River The Nossob (also Nosob or Nossop) River (''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 ri ...

on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. It was closely related to the

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language. There are two attested dialects: ǀʼAuni (ǀʼAuo), 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 peopl ...

, and ǀHaasi, recorded by Robert Story. ǀʼAuni is the word the former use for themselves; ǀʼAuo (or ǀʼAu) is what they call their language. ''ǀauni, ǁauni, Auni'' are misspellings. Other renderings of the name ǀHaasi are ''Kʼuǀha꞉si, Kiǀhasi,'' and ''Kiǀhazi.''Yvonne Treis, 1998, "Names of Khoisan Languages and their Variants"

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