Lower Nossob language

Lower Nossob
Native to	South Africa, Botswana
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Tuu Taa–Lower Nossob Lower Nossob
Dialects	ǀʼAuni ǀHaasi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	included in nmn
Glottolog	lowe1407[1]

Lower Nossob an extinct Khoisan language once spoken along the Nossob River on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. It was closely related to Taa.

There are two attested dialects: ǀ’Auni (ǀ’Auo), recorded by Dorothea Bleek, and ǀHaasi, recorded by Robert Story. ǀ’Auni is the word the former use for themselves; ǀ’Auo (or ǀ’Au) is what they call their language. ǀauni, ǁauni, Auni are misspellings. Other renderings of the name ǀHaasi are K’uǀha:si, Kiǀhasi, and Kiǀhazi.^[2]

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lower-Nosop". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Yvonne Treis, 1998, "Names of Khoisan Languages and their Variants"

External links

• ǀʼAuni and |Haasi basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database