Talk:Khwe language

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Dictionary for Kxoe
The article mentions that a dictionary exists; could someone provide a citation or ISBN number?
 * Kilian-Hatz 2003. Added. &mdash; mark &#9998; 08:08, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Needed updates
The socio-historical context of the language could be expanded. The most up to date information on distribution seems to be from 2003. It also seems that there could be more citations for information on the distribution and history of the Khwe population. The article mentions it's a Khoe language, but doesn't provide much description as to what this entails, or its relationship to other Khoe languages. The map could also be updated to reflect a larger geography of distribution. It may be helpful to have temporal maps as well, even with estimates as to where the population was in different times to understand its current distribution and factors that have led to it becoming endangered. Also in a social context, it may be important to provide linkages to uses of certain words, phrases, etc., that are important to cultural practices for the Khwe speakers, or perhaps even in larger cultural practices that have extended into other language speakers (such as Tswana, or other Khoe languages).

This wikipedia entry is decent in terms of grammar of the language, but could certainly use some improvement. It would be very helpful to have some graphical representations of the different clicks in comparison, or even how they are formed in the throat/mouth. There is also a need for more citations on social-verb construction, suffixes, and lexical roots. The article notes it is a dialect continuum but there is no discussion of how this plays into morphology, phonology, or syntax in the article itself. A list of the phonetic alphabet (or some chart of it) would also be helpful. The article mentions some borrowed words from Afrikaans, I think highlighting some of those would be helpful. A greater discussion of the syntactic typology is also needed.

141.140.178.83 (talk) 17:31, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

New citations
The following is a list of important sources that would contribute to a more holistic representation of Khwe language in a historical and grammatical context. These could be used to add to citations, perhaps, as well as contributing information.

Brenzinger, M. (No Date). The Vanishing of Nonconformist Concepts

Chebanne, Andy. (19 July 2010). The Role of Dictionaries in the Documentation and Codification of African Languages: The Case of Khoisan. Lexikos. Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS). 24.

Chumbo, Sefako, and Kotsi Mmabo. Xom Kyakyare Khwe: Am Kuri Kx'ûî = The Khwe of the Okavango Panhandle: The past Life. Shakawe: Teemacane Trust, 2002.

den Hertog, Thijs Nicolaas (2013). Diversity behind constructed unity: the resettlement process of the !Xun and Khwe communities in South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 31 (3).

Gunnink, H., Sands, B., Pakendorf, B., & Bostoen, K. (2015). Prehistoric language contact in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier area: Khoisan influence on southwestern Bantu languages. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 36(2). doi:10.1515/jall-2015-0009

Haacke, W. (2008, December). Linguistic hypotheses on the origin of Namibian Khoekhoe speakers.Southern African Humanities, 20, 163-177.

Kilian-Hatz, C., & Brenzinger, M. (2003). Khwe dictionary. Köppe.

Westphal, E. O. (1963). The Linguistic Prehistory of Southern Africa: Bush, Kwadi, Hottentot, and Bantu Linguistic Relationships. Africa, 33(03), 237-265. doi:10.2307/1157418 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdnelson197 (talk • contribs) 16:40, 28 September 2016 (UTC)