Hai//om-Akhoe

ǂAakhoe (ǂĀkhoe) and Haiǁom are dialects of the Khoekhoe dialect continuum spoken mainly in Namibia by the Haiǁom people. In the sparsely available material on the subject, ǂAkhoe and Haiǁom have been considered a variant of the Khoekhoe language, as separate dialects, as virtual synonyms of a single variant, or as "a way in which some Haiǁom speak their language in the northern part of Namibia". ǂAkhoe especially is intermediate between the Khoekhoe and Kalahari branches of the Khoe language family. According to Ethnologue there were 52,000 Haiǁom speakers in 2016.

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