WIKITONGUES: Revival speaking English, Khoekhoegowab, and Afrikaans
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This video was submitted by Musuweu Theron Kolokwe from Windhoek, Namibia, where he and Revival both live and work. Khoekhoegowab, also known as Khoekhoe or by its endonym Nama, is spoken by as many as 300,000 people, primarily in the southern African nation of Namibia. Part of the Khoe language family, Khoekhoegowab is among one of the largest Indigenous language groups of southern Africa that predate the Bantu migration. Like many of the Indigenous languages of this region (previously referred to as the 'Khoisan languages'), Khoekhoegowab phonology includes 20 click consonants. It is officially recognized in Namibia, making it the only Khoisan language with official status. The Khoekhoegowab language is spoken almost exclusively in Namibia and consists of a dialect continuum with Nama as the southernmost and Damara, Haiǁom, and ǂAakhoe as the northernmost dialect clusters.
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Baie goes, dankie vir die video!
Can I just say that "Revival" is a damned cool name?
@accurrent
2 жыл бұрын
Forget “Hope” and “Faith” - “REVIVAL” IS WHERE ITS AT!
Hello to the Nama people!!
Wow It's musical ,Keep Khoekhoegowab alive :)
Note that the term "palatal alveolar click" and "alveolar click" are not the phonetic terms for these sounds according to linguistics, but are a teaching convention. The "alveolar" click of teaching refers to the palatal click of linguistics: ǂ The "alveolar palatal click" refers to the (post)alveolar click: ! || is the lateral click | is the dental click These remain the same
Great video. Second part of my videos is my native language, Khoekhoegowab. I am a proud Damara and with a unique special language like my mother, I prefer to show the world awareness of its existence ❤🇳🇦🙏
So awesome om na jou te luister! Hou aan Khoekhoegowab deel met die wereld!
jy het so 'n mooi naam, revival :3
Beautiful.
Thanks for sharing!
Amazing!!
Khoekhoegowab is such a beautiful language!
That’s amazing and cool!!!!!
Ti Ausiesa😍😍😍😍
Ek is Revival, I am Revival, Elesedi Revival.
Kaise a !gai. ❤
I got the Zulu/Xhosa click sounds. Would love to learn a Khoe tongue
@autobotdiva9268
3 жыл бұрын
There are some videos. Im Khoisan/Nama. Im sure you can find some natives in Upington if you are in SA.
@TnboinChi45
3 жыл бұрын
@@autobotdiva9268 I am an American. That loves learning Southern African languages. Thank you for the reference.
@autobotdiva9268
3 жыл бұрын
@@TnboinChi45 i am 🇺🇸 too lol. If u find a rare person in USA like myself, they shud b happy to help u. Take a trip to Namibia once this mess over & have fun!!
@TnboinChi45
3 жыл бұрын
@@autobotdiva9268 I plan on moving to Pretoria in 2022. SAns and Zambians have made my life so complete. So loving. I would love to visit Windhoek. And be around some AbaThwa elders. Let the fuss at me lol. And teach me
@autobotdiva9268
3 жыл бұрын
@@TnboinChi45 thus far USA banned until January 2021 to SA. flight from SA to NAM is 2 hours i think. United Airlines out of DC will now offer direct flights to SA.
Why is Afrikaans considered a different language it sounds so much like dutch I could understand all she said
@-SUM1-
6 жыл бұрын
I don't consider it one either. It's just because it has a lot of loanwords and simpler grammar, but otherwise it's an artificial division.
@SmashhoofTheOriginal
6 жыл бұрын
Afrikaans speakers have trouble understanding Dutch
@Shovlaxnet
6 жыл бұрын
Asymmetric intelligibility. Depending on where you're from in the Netherlands, you might have a harder time understanding Afrikaans. I have a Dutch friend who says she has trouble understanding Afrikaaners. Also, Afrikaans people have a very difficult time understanding Dutch. I had a school nurse who spoke Afrikaans, and said she could barely understand it.
@SkibidiEugensson
6 жыл бұрын
>Asymmetric intelligibility. But isn't it just due to the lack of exposure of Afrikaans speakers to other Dutch dialects?
@joshuaswart8211
4 жыл бұрын
You need to take several factors into account: 1. Her accent is more similar to Dutch than that of most Afrikaans-speakers. 2. The intelligibility is asymmetrical. Afrikaans-speakers struggle to understand Dutch-speakers more than the other way around. This is partially due to simplification of grammar, the different accents, and lack of exposure. 3. The Afrikaans-speaking community is mostly in South Africa and Namibia. If it were spoken as is in Flanders or the Netherlands, it might be considered a dialect, if Afrikaans used Standard Dutch as a standard, and if Afrikaans-speakers became bilingual/bidialectal in Afrikaans and Standard Dutch. Afrikaans is indeed a borderline case of “language or dialect?” and I’m not trying to solve that debate. I’d just like to make people aware that the debate exists, and that the position that Afrikaans is undoubtedly a dialect of Dutch is short-sighted.