1. Family: Khoisan
  2. Genus: Southern Khoisan

!Xóõ

WALS coordinates: 24° S, 21° 30′ E

spoken in Botswana

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • N/amani
Routledge:
  • !Khong
Other:
  • !Xo,
  • !Xóõ, Lone Tree dialect,
  • !Xóõ (Lone Tree),
  • !Xo'o~
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Large
Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio High
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/
Uvular Consonants Uvular stops only
Glottalized Consonants Ejectives and glottalized resonants
Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Moderately complex
Tone Complex tone system
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants Clicks
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Ordinal Numerals None
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions Question particle
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Identical
Finger and Hand Different
Numeral Bases Restricted
Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te