Vaal–Orange, also known as Seroa, is an extinct ǃKwi language of South Africa and Lesotho. It comprised the ǂUngkue dialect (also rendered ǂKunkwe) of the Warrenton area, recorded by Carl Meinhof, and the ǁŨǁʼe dialect (also rendered ǁKu-ǁʼe or ǁKuǁe),[1] spoken near Theunissen and Bethany in South Africa and into Lesotho, recorded by Dorothea Bleek.[2]
Vaal–Orange | |
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Seroa | |
Region | South Africa, Lesotho |
Extinct | 20th century |
Language family | Tuu
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:gku – ǂUngkuekqu – Seroa (partial: ǁŨǁʼe) |
Glottolog | kuee1238 ǁKuǁevaal1235 Vaal–Orange |
The name "Vaal–Orange" comes from the Vaal and Orange Rivers, which converge where ǂUngkue dialect was spoken. Seroa is the Sesotho name, literally "language of the Baroa (Bushmen)".
Like ǀXam, ǂUngkue used 'inclusory' pronouns for compound subjects:
ǃhoeti
lion
nan
and
koro
jackal
nan
and
tuē
ostrich
n
they
a
?PAST
‖ʼa
go
ǃhoeti nan koro nan tuē n a ‖ʼa
lion and jackal and ostrich they ?PAST go
'The lion and jackal and ostrich, they went'. (Meinhof 1929)
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Kxʼa |
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