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Shua

Shua is a Khoe-Kwadi language spoken in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Shua · 21.5°S 26.0°E

Shua SHOO-ə, or Shwakhwe, is a Khoe language (Ost-Kxoe) of Botswana. It is spoken in central Botswana (in Nata and its surroundings), and in parts of the Chobe District in the extreme north of Botswana. There are approximately 6,000 speakers (Cook 2004) and approximately 2,000 out of those 6,000 speakers are native speakers. The linguistic variety spoken in the township of Nata in northeast Botswana is highly endangered and spoken fluently only by adults over about thirty years of age. The term Shwakhwe means people (khwe) from the salty area (shwa).

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Words in Shua

MeaningWordRomanization
personkoe*
name!7on*
eyeTxai*
earTe*
noseTui*
tooth!Lu*
tonguedam*
handTau*
blood!7ao*
bone!nu*
skinko*
knee!oe*
breastsam*
liverkai*
waterCa*
fire!7e*
sun!am*
star!xani*
stone!7ui*
treeyi*
leaf!ana*
nighttu*
dog7aba*
fish7au*
lousek7uni*
one!ui*
twoam*
Ita*
youtsa*
wekam*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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