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Tsʼixa (or Ts'èxa) is a critically endangered African language that belongs to the Kalahari Khoe branch of the Khoe-Kwadi language family.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 38 relations: Accusative case, Active voice, Adposition, Ambitransitive verb, Botswana, Causative, Clitic, Coordination (linguistics), Doublet (linguistics), Grammatical gender, Grammatical number, Grammatical person, Grammaticalization, Intransitive verb, Juǀʼhoan language, Khoe languages, Khoe–Kwadi languages, Khoekhoe language, Khoisan languages, Kxʼa languages, Loanword, Mababe, Nominative case, Object–verb word order, Okavango Delta, Oxford University Press, Passive voice, Predicate (grammar), Reciprocal construction, Reflexive verb, Serial verb construction, Subordination (linguistics), Suffix, Tense–aspect–mood, Tom Güldemann, Transitive verb, Tuu languages, Valency (linguistics).

  2. Khoe languages
  3. Languages of Namibia

Accusative case

In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb.

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Active voice

Active voice is a grammatical voice prevalent in many of the world's languages.

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Adposition

Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for).

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Ambitransitive verb

An ambitransitive verb is a verb that is both intransitive and transitive.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Causative

In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997).

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Clitic

In morphology and syntax, a clitic (backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.

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Coordination (linguistics)

In linguistics, coordination is a complex syntactic structure that links together two or more elements; these elements are called conjuncts or conjoins.

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Doublet (linguistics)

In etymology, two or more words in the same language are called doublets or etymological twins or twinlings (or possibly triplets, and so forth) when they have different phonological forms but the same etymological root.

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").

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Grammatical person

In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).

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Grammaticalization

In historical linguistics, grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a process of language change by which words representing objects and actions (i.e. nouns and verbs) become grammatical markers (such as affixes or prepositions).

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Intransitive verb

In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object.

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Juǀʼhoan language

Juǀʼhoan, also known as Southern or Southeastern ǃKung or ǃXun, is the southern variety of the ǃKung dialect continuum, spoken in northeastern Namibia and the Northwest District of Botswana by San Bushmen who largely identify themselves as Juǀʼhoansi.

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Khoe languages

The Khoe languages are the largest of the non-Bantu language families indigenous to Southern Africa.

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Khoe–Kwadi languages

The Khoe–Kwadi languages are a family consisting of the Khoe languages of southern Africa and the poorly attested extinct Kwadi language of Angola.

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Khoekhoe language

Khoekhoe (Khoekhoegowab), also known by the ethnic terms Nama (Namagowab), Damara (ǂNūkhoegowab), or Nama/Damara and formerly as Hottentot, is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that make heavy use of click consonants and therefore were formerly classified as Khoisan, a grouping now recognized as obsolete. Tsʼixa language and Khoekhoe language are Khoe languages and languages of Namibia.

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Khoisan languages

The Khoisan languages (also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg.

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Kxʼa languages

The Kxʼa languages, also called Ju–ǂHoan, is a language family established in 2010 linking the ǂʼAmkoe (ǂHoan) language with the ǃKung (Juu) dialect cluster, a relationship that had been suspected for a decade. Tsʼixa language and Kxʼa languages are languages of Namibia.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Mababe

Mababe is a village in North-West District of Botswana.

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Nominative case

In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.

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Object–verb word order

In linguistics, an OV language (object–verb language), or a language with object-verb word order, is a language in which the object comes before the verb.

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Okavango Delta

The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a vast inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Passive voice

A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages.

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Predicate (grammar)

The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields.

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Reciprocal construction

A reciprocal construction (abbreviated) is a grammatical pattern in which each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other.

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Reflexive verb

In grammar, a reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself".

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Serial verb construction

The serial verb construction, also known as (verb) serialization or verb stacking, is a syntactic phenomenon in which two or more verbs or verb phrases are strung together in a single clause.

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Subordination (linguistics)

In linguistics, subordination (abbreviated variously,, or) is a principle of the hierarchical organization of linguistic units.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Tense–aspect–mood

Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as) is a group of grammatical categories that are important to understanding spoken or written content, and which are marked in different ways by different languages.

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Tom Güldemann

Tom Güldemann (born 1965) is a German linguist and Africanist.

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Transitive verb

A transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music.

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Tuu languages

The Tuu languages, or Taa–ǃKwi (Taa–ǃUi, ǃUi–Taa, Kwi) languages, are a language family consisting of two language clusters spoken in Botswana and South Africa.

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Valency (linguistics)

In linguistics, valency or valence is the number and type of arguments and complements controlled by a predicate, content verbs being typical predicates.

See Tsʼixa language and Valency (linguistics)

See also

Khoe languages

Languages of Namibia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsʼixa_language

Also known as Kalahari Khoe, Ts'ixa, Ts'ixa dialect, Ts'èxa language, Tsixa.