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Nǀuu

Nǀuu proper noun: a dialect of the Nǁng language spoken in South Africa, sometimes also used for the language as a whole.

Proper noun

Nǀuu

  1. A dialect of the Nǁng language spoken in South Africa, sometimes also used for the language as a whole.
    • Hanna Koper and her two sisters are thought to be the last remaining speakers of the San language N|uu, rated as critically endangered by Unesco.2015, David Smith, The Guardian, 9 June

Questions about Nǀuu

What does Nǀuu mean?
Nǀuu means a dialect of the Nǁng language spoken in South Africa, sometimes also used for the language as a whole.
What part of speech is Nǀuu?
Nǀuu is a proper noun.

Words near Nǀuu in the dictionary

  1. Nłeʔkepmx
  2. Nłeʔkepmxcín
  3. nō
  4. nūn
  5. nūns
  6. Nǀuu
  7. Nǁng
  8. nɬeʔkepmxcín
  9. nʕaylintn
  10. n̓səl̓xcin̓
  11. o

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