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Extinct ǃKwi language of Southern Africa
Seroa
ǃUi
Native toSouth Africa
RegionBloemfontein
EthnicityǃUi
Extinct1870s (Traill 2002)
Language familyTuu
  • ǃKwi
    • Eastern
      • Seroa
Language codes
ISO 639-3kqu
Linguist Listkqu
Glottologsero1239

Seroa, or ǃUi, is a ǃKwi language or dialect of South Africa that went extinct in the 19th century. It was spoken in the area of Bloemfontein. Seroa is the Sesotho name, literally "language of the Baroa (Bushmen)"; the people called themselves ǃUi (that is, ǃKwi), which just means 'people'. The language is labeled SIId in Dorothea Bleek's classification.

Doculects

Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculects.

Label Researcher Date Origin Notes
ǃUi Wuras > 1836 Bethany Bleek label SIId.
ǃUi Arbousset 1836 Mokhasi/Puchane Bleek label SIId.

Seroa was closely related to ǁŨǁʼe and Boshof ǃUi, but analysis of the recorded data has not been enough to determine the boundary between language and dialect.

References

  1. Seroa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.
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