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Taa is the word for 'human being'; the local name of the language is Taa ǂaan (Tâa ǂâã), from ǂaan 'language'. ǃXoon (ǃXóõ) is an ethnonym used at opposite ends of the Taa-speaking area, but not by Taa speakers in between. [5] Most living Taa speakers are ethnic ǃXoon (plural ǃXooŋake) or 'Nǀohan (plural Nǀumde). [6]
ǃKwi languages were once widespread across South Africa; the most famous, ǀXam, was the source of the modern national motto of that nation, ǃke eː ǀxarra ǁke. The Taa branch of Botswana is more robust, though it also has only one surviving language, ǃXóõ, with 2,500 speakers.
The Khoisan languages (/ ˈ k ɔɪ s ɑː n / KOY-sahn; also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg. [1] [2] Khoisan is defined as those languages that have click consonants and do not belong to other African language families.
This is a common effect of uvular or uvularised consonants on vowels in both click and non-click languages. In Taa, for example, the back-vowel constraint is triggered by both alveolar clicks and uvular stops, but not by palatal clicks or velar stops: sequences such as */ǃi/ and */qi/ are rare to non-existent, whereas sequences such as /ǂi ...
Taa, a Khoisan language of southern Africa; TAA (football club), a team representing Trans Australia Airlines in the VFL thirds in 1949; Ṭāʼ or Teth, a letter of the Arabic abjad; Tactical asset allocation, an investment strategy; The Amity Affliction, an Australian post-hardcore band
The Tau Taa Wana (sometimes Tau Ta'a Wana or Tao Taa Wana) is a sub-group of the numerous people who speak variants of the Ta'a or Pamona language of Eastern Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. [1] The Tau Taa Wana people referred to themselves as Tao Taa , as in tao means "people" and taa means "not".
Abau Language Papuan Languages Abaza Northwest Caucasian Abenaki Eastern Algonquian Abkhaz or Abkhazian Northwest Caucasian Abujmaria or Madiya or Maria Dravidian Acehnese Malayo-Polynesian Adamorobe Sign Language Language isolate Adele Kwa Adyghe or West Circassian Northwest Caucasian Afar Cushitic Afrikaans Germanic Afro-Seminole Creole English-based creole Aguaruna Chicham Ahom Kra–Dai ...
Ethnologue lists the following as dialects: Laiwonu (Iba), Pamona (Poso), Rapangkaka (Aria), Taa (Topotaa, Wana), Tobau (Bare’e, Tobalo, Tobao), Tokondindi, Tomoni, and Topada. [2] The Poso dialect is the prestige dialect, specifically the variety spoken in the interior around Lake Poso.