28.2265, Books: N!aqriaxe - The Phonology of an endangered Language of Botswana: Gerlach

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 13:44:42
From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: N!aqriaxe - The Phonology of an endangered Language of Botswana: Gerlach

Title: N!aqriaxe - The Phonology of an endangered Language of Botswana 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
	   http://www.isdistribution.com

Book URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=76886 

Author: Linda Gerlach

Paperback: ISBN:  9783447107242 Pages: 358 Price: U.S. $ 92.00

Abstract:

N!aqriaxe is a variety of a language called 'Amkoe. 'Amkoe belongs to one of
the three Khoisan language families and is spoken at the southern fringe of
the Kalahari in Botswana. The N!aqriaxe variety is severely endangered as are
the other two varieties of 'Amkoe, Hoan and Sasi. West 'Amkoe (subsuming
N!aqriaxe and Hoan) counts approximately 50 speakers and Sasi possibly another
50 speakers. Exact numbers are not available. Most speakers are around 70
years old and the children do not learn the language anymore. 'Amkoe is spoken
by former hunter-gatherer populations that nowadays live mostly scattered in
villages within an area of a few hundred square kilometers. In linguistic
terms, 'Amkoe has only been "discovered" in the 1970s and projects aiming at a
more thorough documentation and classification of the language mostly started
in the 2010s. Until today, the language is only partly documented. The aim of
the present book is to fill the first gap by providing a description of the
phonology of N!aqriaxe, supplemented with some phonetic data, and comparing it
to the other two 'Amkoe varieties whenever these differ significantly.
Furthermore it also includes some sociolinguistic information about the
speakers and their history as well as a study of how the contact between
speakers of Khoisan languages belonging to different language families
influenced the phonological and phonetic characteristics of these languages.
(Harrassowitz Verlag 2016)

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Khoisan

Written In: English  (eng)

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