//Xegwi

ǁXegwi or ǁXʼegwi (pronounced ZEH-gwee; ǁXegwi: giǁkxi꞉gwi), also known as Batwa, is an extinct ǃKwi language spoken at Lake Chrissie in South Africa, near the Swazi border. The last known speaker, Jopi Mabinda (also Jobi Mabinda), was murdered in 1988. However, a reporter for the South African newspaper Mail & Guardian reports that ǁXʼegwi may still have been spoken in the Chrissiesmeer district in 2011.

The ǁXʼegwi name for their language has been spelled giǁkwi꞉gwi or kiǁkwi꞉gwi. Their name for themselves, Tlouʼeʼthle 'people of rock and water', has been transcribed tlou tle and kxlou-kxle, presumably renderings of [k͡𝼄ouk͡𝼄e]. The Nguni (Zulu and Swazi) called them (a)batwa, amaNkqeshe and amaNgqwigqwi; the Sotho called them Baroa~Barwa.

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