Tuu languages information

The Tuu languages, or Taa–ǃKwi (Taa–ǃUi, ǃUi–Taa, Kwi) languages, are a language family consisting of two language clusters spoken in Botswana and South...

Tuu or TUU may refer to: As a name Tuu (band) (1980s–1999), British ambient band Tuu languages, spoken in Botswana and South Africa Xuan Tuu (1925–1996)...

dialect they speak. The Tuu languages are one of the three traditional language families that make up the Khoisan languages. In 2011, there were around...

the two Khoisan language isolates, Sandawe and Hadza. The following three are languages from the Khoe family, the Kxʼa family, and the Tuu family, respectively...

speakers of Tuu languages, absorbing features of their languages. This has resulted in Tuu and Kx'a substrata in the Khoekhoe languages. The expansion...

Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language (or languages) by the languages of the Nguni cluster (especially Zulu, Xhosa and Phuthi...

between language and dialect. Seroa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented...

speak Tshwa (a Khoe language) and 0.1% speak !Xóõ, a Tuu language (both non-Bantu). English is spoken by 2.8% as their first language, and a small number...

language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...

the respective pharyngealized vowel. In Tuu languages, epiglottalized vowels are phonemic. For many languages, pharyngealization is generally associated...

Nǁng, a member of the Tuu languages in South Africa exemplifies the decline of many Khoisan languages. Speakers of the language were acculturated to Nama...

found as phonemes only in the small Tuu language family (currently two languages, one moribund), in the ǂ’Amkoe language of Botswana (also moribund), and...

UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-03-17. Treis, Yvonne (1998). "Names of Khoisan languages and their variants". In Schladt...

Totus tuus is a Latin greeting which was routinely used[when?] to sign off letters written in Latin, meaning "all yours", often abbreviated as "t.t." (a...

Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages, is a family of languages spoken...

Records (1996 ed.) as the language with the most consonant phonemes, but since 2017 the !Xóõ language (a member of the Tuu languages) has been considered by...

accepted into Unicode, at code point U+1DFD. These languages use phonemic strident vowels: Tuu languages Taa (See Taa vowels) ǃKwi (ǃUi) Nǁng (a dialect...

labels four of the languages "definitely endangered" and two others "severely endangered". Phonologically, the Ryukyuan languages have some cross-linguistically...

from a common proto-language, but are today split into at least three separate and unrelated language families (Khoe-Kwadi, Tuu and Kxʼa). It has been...

has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...

official Austronesian languages). By the number of languages they include, Austronesian and Niger–Congo are the two largest language families in the world...