Gǀui is a Khoe-Kwadi language spoken by about 1500 native speakers mainly in Botswana and belongs to the Gǁana language cluster. It is represented here in the orthography as proposed by Hirosi Nakagawa.
Classification
- Lineage
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Khoe-Kwadi
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Categories
- dzérá
- bird (life form)
- gúũ-wà-háã
- useless/harmless; non-edible, non-medicinal and non-dangerous plants and animals
- kχʼóo-χo
- larger ungulates that are hunted, “eat-thing”
- kχʼôo-χo ǀʔóbi
- game with plenty of/fatty meat
- paa-χò
- dangerous animals, “bite-thing”; synonym: ŋǂīī-ǀùà, ŋǂǐi-ǀoã (carnivores, possible man-killers)
- tsôo
- medicine
- tsṵ̀m̄
- plants eaten raw
- tsı̀ù
- water pit, well
- ìī
- tree (life form)
- ŋǂà̰bı̄
- type of vegitation with Grewia flava
- ŋǂébā
- type of vegetation with Silver terminalia
- ŋǃá̰m̄
- grassy (small) area without trees, an area with hard sand
- ǀèrù
- grassland, place with long grasses
- ǀqāā
- dry valley
- ǀqχʼáo
- snake (life form)
- ǀχáa
- edible vertebrate animals, “meat”
- ǀχáa-ǀoa
- small game animals, “small meat”
- ǀχáī
- large, flat area of pan (with grass growing)
- ǁʰàù
- animals caught with snare
- ǁʼāū
- fish
- ǁχáú
- woodland, forest (mainly consisting of tall thorny trees)
- ǁχārī
- grove, area dense with trees
- ǁχúm̀
- river
- ǂàà
- wide land without trees, only grasses
- ǂʔuũ-χò
- edible plants and insects, “eat-thing”
- ǂʰáá
- hard section of a pan where no water gathers
- ǃánà
- vine (life form)
- ǃóò
- basin, large puddle in a dried river bed
- ǃqχʼúı́
- grassland, place with long grasses
- ǃúrı̄-ʔò
- small dried pan
- ɡǀa᷇ã
- grass (life form)
- ɡǀúī
- vegetation abundant in thornless bushes and grasses
- ɡǃṵ̀mà
- type of vegetation full of Shepherd's tree (Boscia albitrunca)
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