• Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyɛyi) is a Bantu language spoken by many of the approximately 50,000 Yeyi people along the Okavango River in Namibia and Botswana...
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  • Yeyi may refer to: Ye County, Henan, China, formerly known as Yeyi Yeyi people Yeyi language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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  • the Okavango River where, apparently, the Yeyi language borrowed the clicks from a West Kalahari Khoe language; a separate development led to a smaller...
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    heaviest functional load of click consonants in a Bantu language (approximately tied with Yeyi), with one count finding that 10% of basic vocabulary items...
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    They speak ShiYeyi, a language that was influenced by the San and exhibits the characteristic clicks but Silozi is used as the formal language in official...
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    and Silozi by 4.71%. Other native languages include the Bantu languages Setswana, Gciriku, Fwe, Kuhane, Mbukushu, Yeyi; and the Khoisan Naro, ǃXóõ, Kung-Ekoka...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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    Kung-Ekoka Lozi Mbukushu Nambya Naro Ndebele Setswana Shua Tshuwau Tswapong !Xóõ Yeyi Zezuru isiXhosa Lucas, Ceil; Schembri, Adam C. (February 12, 2015). Sociolinguistics...
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    borrowed clicks as part of a sprachbund, as the Bantu Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa etc.) and Yeyi did; and Neither the ancestors of the Juǀʼhoan nor those...
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    The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu...
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