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!Kung

/kʊŋ/

!Kung is the alternative form of ǃKung.

Meaning of ǃKung

Proper noun

ǃKung

  1. A group of Bushmen people living in the Kalahari Desert.
    • Given the early sex play, I will hazard a guess that there are few ǃKung virgins, male or female, at puberty.1992, Richard B. Lee, Work, Sexuality, and Aging Among ǃKung Women, in In her prime: new views of middle-aged women (Virginia Kerns, Judith K. Brown), page 39
    Synonyms:
    ǃXun
  2. A Khoisan language spoken in Namibia, Angola, and South Africa, famous for its click consonants.
    • The ǃ in the word ǃKung is an orthographic symbol denoting a "click" sound. The ǃKung language, aside from sharing many of the same sounds found in all languages, has four distinct clicks […]1973, The Second Wave, volume 3, page 17

Questions about !Kung

What is !Kung the alternative form of?
!Kung is the alternative form of ǃKung.
How do you pronounce !Kung?
!Kung is pronounced /kʊŋ/.

Words near !Kung in the dictionary

  1. !
  2. !'O!uŋ
  3. !Kung
  4. "early life" check
  5. "early life" checks
  6. "homework" folder
  7. "homework" folders
  8. "R" slur
  9. "R" slurs
  10. "small c" conservative
  11. "small c" conservatives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: !Kung (page history and authors); ǃKung (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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