Ç€Xam language

Spoken in

• Tuu languages! UI languages | Xam

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Xam

Xam

| Xam, or |! Xam Ka ke, is an extinct in the 20th century Khoisan language that was spoken south of the middle reaches of the Orange River in an area in South Africa. It belongs to the Tuu language family. It is closely related to N ǁ ng, that still has some speakers.

| Xam is the language of the motto adopted on 27 April 2000, the Republic of South Africa:

( " Different people come together ", usually rendered in forms with collective terms such as " Different nations should "). It is not known whether this is in | Xam might actually have been a figure of speech. | Xam is as extinct language none of the eleven official languages ​​of South Africa. In South Africa's coat of arms is the motto in the spelling of " ke e: / Xarra / / ke " to read, so with zitierbarer in ASCII spelling of the clicking sounds.

A significant part of the scientific work on | Xam was done by Wilhelm Bleek, a German linguists of the 19th century.