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  2. Khoekhoe - Wikipedia

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    A commissioned Grammar and Dictionary of the Zulu Language, published in 1859, put forward the idea of an origin from Egypt that appears to have been popular at the time. The reasoning for this included the (supposed) distinctive Caucasian elements of the Khoekhoe's appearance, a "wont to worship the moon'", an apparent similarity to the ...

  3. Khoekhoe language - Wikipedia

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    Khoekhoe (/ ˈ k ɔɪ k ɔɪ / KOY-koy; Khoekhoegowab, Khoekhoe pronunciation: [k͡xʰo̜͡ek͡xʰo̜͡egowab]), also known by the ethnic terms Nama (/ ˈ n ɑː m ə / NAH-mə; Namagowab), [3] Damara (ǂNūkhoegowab), or Nama/Damara [4] [5] and formerly as Hottentot, [b] is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that make heavy use of click consonants and therefore ...

  4. Comparison of General American and Received Pronunciation

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    Rhoticity – GA is rhotic while RP is non-rhotic; that is, the phoneme /r/ is only pronounced in RP when it is immediately followed by a vowel sound. [5] Where GA pronounces /r/ before a consonant and at the end of an utterance, RP either has no consonant (if the preceding vowel is /ɔː/, /ɜ:/ or /ɑː/, as in bore, burr and bar) or has a schwa instead (the resulting sequences being ...

  5. English language - Wikipedia

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    Old English is essentially a distinct language from Modern English and is virtually impossible for 21st-century unstudied English-speakers to understand. Its grammar was similar to that of modern German: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs had many more inflectional endings and forms , and word order was much freer than in Modern English.

  6. Ga (Indic) - Wikipedia

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    Kho khwai (ค) and kho khon (ฅ) are the fourth and fifth letters of the Thai script. They fall under the low class of Thai consonants. They fall under the low class of Thai consonants. In IPA , kho khwai and kho khon are pronounced as [kʰ] at the beginning of a syllable and are pronounced as [k̚] at the end of a syllable.

  7. Traditional games of India - Wikipedia

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    Kho kho is a traditional South Asian sport that dates to ancient India. [102] [103] It is the second-most popular traditional tag game in the Indian subcontinent after kabaddi. [104] Kho kho is played on a rectangular court with a central lane connecting two poles which are at either end of the court.

  8. Kho kho - Wikipedia

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    Kho kho is a traditional South Asian sport that dates to ancient India. [2] [3] It is the second-most popular traditional tag game in the Indian subcontinent after kabaddi. [4] Kho kho is played on a rectangular court with a central lane connecting two poles which are at either end of the court.

  9. Glossary of kho kho terms - Wikipedia

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    The central lane is the area between both poles which contains the sitting blocks that the attackers sit in. . It is against the rules for an attacker to tag a defender while in the central lane, with the exception of an attacker who has received a kho and not yet left their sitting block.