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The !Kwi branch of South Africa is Moribund , with only one language remaining, N/uu , and that with only a dozen elderly speakers. !Kwi languages were once widespread across South Africa; the most famous, /Xam , was the source of the modern National Motto of that nation, ''''. The Ta’a branch of Botswana is more robust, though it also has one surviving language, !Xóõ , with 4200 speakers. The family was once thought to include the (East) ‡Hõã Language , but this may instead be related to the Juu Family and is best considered unclassified for now. The Tuu languages, along with ‡Hõã, are known for being the only languages in the world to have Bilabial Click s as distinctive speech sounds, apart from the extinct ritual jargon Damin of northern Australia . They also have some of the most complex inventories of both Consonant s and Vowel s in the world, as well as Tone . Because many of the Tuu languages became extinct with little record, there is considerable confusion as to which of their many names represented separate languages or even dialects. See List Of Khoisan Languages for some possibilities. |
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