ǃKung
US/kʊŋ/
ǃKung proper noun: a group of Bushmen people living in the Kalahari Desert.
Proper noun
ǃKung
- 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
- […] and that ǃKung women are married so young because ǃKung men try to marry them before the Bantu do!1996, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Kristen Hawkes, James F. O'Connell, “The global process and local ecology”, in Susan Kent, editor, Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers, page 179
- Synonyms:
- ǃXun
- 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
- Harpending spoke ǃKung because of his previous fieldwork in the area, […]1994, The Aging Experience: diversity and commonality across cultures (Jennie Keith), page 24
Examples of ǃKung in a sentence
- The San-speaking ǃKung of southern Africa are nearly always chosen to exemplify the forager strategy.c. 2001–2007, Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook (Gary M. Feinman, T. Douglas Price), page 155
- The San-speaking ǃKung of Botswana (the “Bushmen” of old) are presented as a distinct, “other,” and apparently primordial “people.”2008, The cultural geography reader (Timothy Oakes, Patricia Lynn Price), page 65
- (Once known as "Bushmen," the ǃKung, today, are also known as the Nyae Nyae or the Jo-hoansi, pronounced zhu-wahnsi.) The ǃ symbol in the ǃKung language is a click sound made with the tongue.2009, Cameron M. Smith, Evan T. Davies, editors, Anthropology For Dummies, →ISBN:
- In Epembe, Oonduda and Uusilo very few people could understand and even fewer could speak ǃKung.2002, New horizons for the San: participatory action research with San communities in Northern Namibia (Dhyani J. Berger, Elke Zimprich)...
Synonyms of ǃKung
- ǃXun
Origin of ǃKung
Borrowed from ǃKung.
Words that rhyme with ǃKung
Questions about ǃKung
- What does ǃKung mean?
- ǃKung means a group of Bushmen people living in the Kalahari Desert.
- How do you use ǃKung in a sentence?
- The San-speaking ǃKung of southern Africa are nearly always chosen to exemplify the forager strategy.
- What part of speech is ǃKung?
- ǃKung is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ǃKung?
- ǃKung is pronounced /kʊŋ/ (US).
Words near ǃKung in the dictionary
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