Also Known As:
Nharo, Naron, /Ai San, Nharon, Nhauru, Nhaurun, ||Aikwe, |Aikwe, ||Ai||en, ||Aisan, ||Ai||e, Qoo, Gaa, Ts'ao
Dialects & Varieties
- Ts'ao
Language and cultural empowerment of the Khoesan people: the Naro experience
Hessel Visser. 2000. "Language and Cultural Empowerment of the Khoesan People: the Naro Experience." In Botswana: the Future of the Minority Languages, edited by Herman M. Batibo and Birgit Smieja. 40: 193-215. Peter Lang.
Vulnerable
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~10,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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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
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Location and Context
Countries
Botswana
Location Description
D'kar, Ghanzi District
Government Support
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Institutional Support
Dictionary, Bible translation, Kuru Development Trust, literacy classes and materials, Qauqaua book of folk tales
Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Latin-based, rendering clicks with rarely-used Latin letters
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
"We collected words and put them in a wordlist. This list grew into a dictionary, of which we published a first preliminary version in 1994. In the meantime, we had developed a preliminary orthography, that would also serve the purpose of teaching the local people to read and write."
Recent Resources
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