Kgalagadi language
Kgalagadi | |
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Kalahari | |
sheKgalagadi | |
Native to | Botswana |
Native speakers | 65,400 (2015)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
xkv |
Glottolog |
kgal1244 [2] |
S.311 (ex-S.31d) [3] | |
Linguasphere |
99-AUT-eh incl. varieties 99-AUT-eha to 99-AUT-ehc |
Kgalagadi is one of the Bantu languages spoken in Botswana, along the South African border. It is spoken by about 40,000 people.[4] In the language, it is known as Shekgalagari, pronounced [ʃɛkxalaxaɾi].
Classification
Kgalagadi (also rendered Kgalagari, Kgalagarhi, Kgalagari, Khalagari, Khalakadi, Kxhalaxadi, Qhalaxarzi, Shekgalagadi, Shekgalagari) is most closely related to Tswana, and until recently was classified as a dialect of Tswana.[3]
Dialects include Shengologa, Sheshaga, Shebolaongwe, Shelala, Shekhena, Sheritjhauba and Shekgwatheng.
Notes and references
- ↑ "Kgalagadi". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kgalagadi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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