Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara)

Haacke, Wilfrid

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-01593-8_9

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“…It is widely known that Khoekhoegowab has four plain or basic clicks, namely: the dental click [|], palatal-alveolar click [ ǂ], post-alveolar click [ǃ] and lateral alveolar click [ǁ], (Khoekhoegowab orthography, 2003;Miller et al, 2007;Haacke & Eiseb, 2002). These are also called click types in Miller et al (2007).…”

Section: Khoekhoegowab Click Sounds: a Brief Reviewmentioning

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Perspectives on complex click consonants of Khoekhoegowab

Fredericks,

Banda

2023

NJLC

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The paper offers an alternative way of describing what is called complex click consonants in Khoesan languages. Using data obtained from key informants and focused groups from the Karas, Hardap and the Kunene regions of Namibia as well as relevant literature we argue that co-articulated clicks should be treated as one sound represented by one grapheme. We argue that plain clicks in Khoekhoegowab are not glotalised as perceived because the glotalisation comes from the accompanying vowel. Using articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics we also problematize the notion of ‘complexity’ in the click complexes by showing that these click consonants play the same morphophonological role as consonants found in non-click languages. Thereafter the implications of this for cluster and unitary analysis are also discussed.

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Section: Khoekhoegowab Click Sounds: a Brief Reviewmentioning

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Perspectives on complex click consonants of Khoekhoegowab

Fredericks,

Banda

2023

NJLC

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“…Khoekhoegowab is a language belonging to the Khoekhoe branch of the Khoe language family (formerly known as Khoesan/Khoisan). It is spoken by roughly 240 000 people in Namibia, or 12 % of the population, making it the second most common language after Oshiwambo (Haacke 2018). Khoekhoegowab has a fairly complex sound system, typically described as having five short and long vowels, three nasal vowels, 12 non-click consonants and 20 click consonant phonemes.…”

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“…The VOT values then produced, however, might not follow typical English patterns if the native contrast is acoustically realized in a different way. Proficiency in Afrikaans, typical to many Khoekhoegowab speakers (Haacke 2018), may also affect the production of voicing contrasts. Afrikaans is considered to have /p-b/ and /t-d/ contrasts, with voiced stops realized as prevoiced and voiceless stops as short-lag (Coetzee et al 2018).…”

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The production of voicing in Namibian English stops by speakers of Khoekhoegowab

Haapanen,

Saloranta,

Peltola

et al. 2024

AFinLA

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This study examines whether Namibian English spoken by L1 Khoekhoegowab speakers has word-initial stop voicing contrasts, and how they might be realized in freely produced speech. The data consists of English interviews collected from nine speakers of Namibian English. For analysis, a total of 365 words beginning with a stop-vowel sequence were extracted from the interviews, and analyzed for voice onset time (VOT). To examine the realization of voicing, the extracted words are divided into voiced and voiceless categories based on their phonological voicing in other varieties of English and their VOTs are compared statistically. The VOTs of voiceless stops are significantly longer than those of voiced stops. The results suggest a short-lag vs. aspiration contrast in word-initial stops in Namibian English and provide new information about the phonetic features of Namibian English consonants.

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“…One of the last surviving languages of the Khoe branch of Khoe-Kwadi languages, Khoekhoegowab (also referred to as Nama, Damara, or Haiǁom ) is the second most common mother tongue in Namibia, spoken by about 12% of the population [ 90 ]. Speakers of this group retained aspects of hunting and gathering lifestyle into recent times [ 91 ].…”

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Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab

Claudius

Shino

Job

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Euro-centric psychiatric conceptualizations often ignore the interplay of local with universal factors in psychological suffering. Emic, locally focused perspectives can enrich etic knowledge to provide culturally sensitive care and to better elucidate the role of culture in mental illness. This study explored the idiom Tsûsa ǃNaeǃkhais xa hâǃnâ/mâǃnâ/ǂgâǃnâhe hâ (a terrible event has entered a person and remains standing inside), which was understood to relate to experiences of trauma and post-traumatic stress, among speakers of Khoekhoegowab, a southern-African click language. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 participants from six urban and rural communities in Namibia. Questions probed perceptions of the idiom in terms of etiology, course, and risk and resilience factors from a socio-ecological framework. Five key themes were identified using thematic analysis: origin in a shocking event; intrusive recurrence of memories, “it keeps on coming back”; the close interplay between mental and physical suffering; the importance of active engagement in healing through prayer and acceptance; and the role of the community in both alleviating and amplifying distress. Our findings highlight local norms and strategies for adaptive coping, and the benefits of exploring local idioms to elucidate the braiding together of universal and cultural elements in psychological distress.

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Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara)

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Perspectives on complex click consonants of Khoekhoegowab

Perspectives on complex click consonants of Khoekhoegowab

The production of voicing in Namibian English stops by speakers of Khoekhoegowab

Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab

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