ǃkung
/kʊŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A group of Bushmen people living in the Kalahari Desert.
name
A Khoisan language spoken in Namibia, Angola, and South Africa, famous for its click consonants.
Example Sentences
- "Given the early sex play, I will hazard a guess that there are few ǃKung virgins, male or female, at puberty."
- "[…] and that ǃKung women are married so young because ǃKung men try to marry them before the Bantu do!"
- "From the peaceful and gentle ǃKung San Bushmen to the urbane and civilised Montaigne, from folk legend to Freudian complex, from Medusa to the Blue Angel, men blame women for their discomforts and disappointments."
- "The San-speaking ǃKung of southern Africa are nearly always chosen to exemplify the forager strategy."
- "The San-speaking ǃKung of Botswana (the “Bushmen” of old) are presented as a distinct, “other,” and apparently primordial “people.”"
- "(Once known as "Bushmen," the ǃKung, today, are also known as the Nyae Nyae or the Jo-hoansi, pronounced zhu-wahnsi.) The ǃ symbol in the ǃKung language is a click sound made with the tongue."
Etymology
Borrowed from ǃKung.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kʊŋ/
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of ǃKung terms
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
ǃXun