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Danster ǃUi

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Danster ǃUi
RegionSouth Africa
ExtinctLate 20th century[1]
Tuu
  • ǃKwi
    • Danster ǃUi
Dialects
  • ǂUngkue
  • ǁKā
Language codes
ISO 639-3gku ǂUngkue
Glottologdans1240

Danster ǃUi is an extinct ǃKwi language of the Vaal River region of South Africa. It comprised the ǂUngkue dialect (also rendered ǂKunkwe) of the Warrenton area, recorded by Carl Meinhof, and the neighboring ǁKā dialect recorded by Dorothea Bleek.

Doculects

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Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculects as being Danster ǃUi.[2]

Label Researcher Date Location Notes
ǂUngkue Meinhof 1928–1929 Warrenton-Windsorton, near Kimberley Mislabeled ǁkhau; it is not ǁKhʼau, which is variety of Nǀuu.) D. Bleek label SIIb.
ǁKā D. Bleek > 1920 Warrenton

Güldemann is agnostic as to whether these form a single language, but they are accepted as such by Glottolog.

References

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  1. ^ Danster ǃUi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.

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