Lower Nossob language
Extinct Khoisan language of Botswana
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Lower Nossob is an extinct Khoisan language once spoken along the Nossob River on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. It was closely related to the Taa language.
| Lower Nossob | |
|---|---|
| Native to | South Africa, Botswana |
| Region | Nossob River |
| Ethnicity | ÇʼAuni |
| Extinct | 2005[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nsb |
| Glottolog | lowe1407 |
 ÇʼAuni is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2] | |
There are two attested dialects: ÇʼAuni (pronounced /ËaÊniË/ OW-nee), or ÇʼAuo, recorded by Dorothea Bleek, and ÇHaasi, recorded by Robert Story. ÇʼAuni is the word they formerly used for themselves; ÇʼAuo (or ÇʼAu) is what they called their language. Çauni, Çauni, Auni are misspellings. Other renderings of the name ÇHaasi are KʼuÇhaêsi, KiÇhasi, and KiÇhazi.[3]