Boshof ǃUi is an extinct
ǃKwi language or dialect of
South Africa
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. It was recorded at the town of
Boshof, between
Kimberley
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Places and historical events
Australia
Queensland
* Kimberley, Queensland, a coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas
South Australia
* County of Kimberley, a cadastral unit in South Australia
Ta ...
and the
Vaal River
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, by Maingard some time after 1930, and labeled simply "ǃUi" (that is, ''ǃKwi''), the word for 'person' in Boshof and related languages. It is closely related to
Seroa, but analysis of the recorded data has not been enough to determine the boundary between language and dialect.
[Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.]
References
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Extinct languages of Africa
Tuu languages
Languages of South Africa
Languages of Lesotho
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