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Endangered Languages, Migration and Marginalisation of the ||Anikhwe

Soldier David Naude and Willemien le Roux. 2005. "Endangered Languages, Migration and Marginalisation of the ||Anikhwe." In Creating Outsiders: Endangered Languages, Migration and Marginalisation: Proceedings of the Ninth FEL Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 18-20 November 2005, edited by Nigel Crawhall and Nicholas Ostler. Bath, Foundation for Endangered Languages.

Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
A few hundred
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use

Domain Of Use 4

Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.

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Transmission

Transmission 4

Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.

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Speakers

Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"At !Haoxa where the majority of the ||Anikhwe live, they have become Sekgalagadi speakers. This is very common to the ||Anikhwe today, to a point of almost changing their ethnicity."

Location and Context

Countries
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Location Description

"The ||Anikhwe are found today along the Okavongo Panhandle in Botswana at ||X'oakao, Ngarange, Mogotlho and some are south of the above-mentioned places at !Haoxa and N|amacere respectively... at Mababe, Tubu near Nokaneng, ||Anikhwe people could not even speak a single word of ||Anikhwedam."

Government Support
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Institutional Support
Teemacane Language Committee; Trust for Okavongo Cultural and Development Initiatives
Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Sekgalagadi
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None

Writing Systems

Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Roman-based
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
"In 2001, the Khwe and ||Anikhwedam speaking communities came together with language experts and met in Windhoek to discuss their own language development... Both the Khwe and ||Anikhwe agreed to use the Cologne University's Khwe orthography, but with minor changes to make it more community friendly and to be able to be used on southern African keyboards."

Recent Resources

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