ǃxóõ
/ˈkoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Khoisan language, known for its large phonemic inventory including complex click consonants.
Example Sentences
- "The ǃXóõ language is spoken by widely scattered groups of San living in southwestern Botswana and a small area of eastern Namibia."
- "[…] which studied category formation of ǃXóõ clicks by speakers of a language that has no clicks (American English) and two other unrelated African languages that have clicks, but fewer of them […]"
- "However, the phonotactic patterning of 'uvular' clicks in ǃXóõ does not comply with the predicted patterns given in this analysis."
- "Speakers of ǃXóõ (also known as Taa), gathered together for a storytelling competition at Pos 17, Namibia […]"
- "The most phonologically diverse language may be ǃXóõ, spoken by about 4,000 people in Botswana and Namibia, which has somewhere between 84 and 159 consonants."
- "[…] and the ǃXóõ language spoken in Botswana and Namibia […]"
Etymology
Borrowed from ǃXóõ ǃxóõ.
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of ǃXóõ terms
Frequently Paired Words
ǃKung
Wiktionary’s coverage of ǃXóõ terms