Boshof ǃUi is an extinct ǃKwi language or dialect of

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. It was recorded at the town of Boshof, between

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and the

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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.

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