Juu-ǂHoan languages

Juu-ǂHoan languages

Infobox Language family
name=Juu-ǂHoan
altname=≈ Northern Khoisan (obsolete)
region=Angola, Namibia, and Botswana
familycolor=Khoisan
family=Traditionally considered Khoisan, it may be one of the world's primary language families
child1=Juu
child2=ǂHoanThe Juu-ǂHoan languages form a recently proposed family linking the IPA|ǂHõã language isolate with the Juu dialect cluster. Along with the Tuu languages, it is one of two language families indigenous to southern Africa.

*ǂHõã (200 speakers, Botswana. Moribund.)
*Juu (also "ǃKung," formerly "Northern Khoisan)" is a single dialect cluster. (~45,000 speakers.) Well known dialects are ǃKung (ǃXũũ), Juǀʼhoan, and ǂKxʼauǁʼein.

IPA|ǂHõã had previously been lumped in with the Tuu languages, but the only thing they have in common are typological features such as their bilabial clicks. Starostin (2003) [Starostin G. (2003) [http://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/khoilex.pdf A lexicostatistical approach towards reconstructing Proto-Khoisan] , page 22. "Mother Tongue", vol. VIII.] argues that the bilabial clicks are a secondary development in IPA|ǂHõã, and thus unrelated to the bilabial clicks of Tuu. He cites as an example the IPA|ǂHõã words for 'one' and 'two', IPA|/ŋ͡ʘũ/ and IPA|/ʘoa/, whereas no other Khoisan language has a labial consonant of any kind in its words for these numerals.

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