Juu
ǃKung KUUNG (ǃXun), also known as Ju ( JOO), is a dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three languages. Together with the ǂʼAmkoe language, ǃKung forms the Kxʼa language family.
ǃKung is famous for its many clicks, such as the alveolar click ǃ in its name, and has some of the most complex inventories of both consonants and vowels in the world. It also has tone and nasalization. For a description, see Juǀʼhoan. To pronounce ǃXuun (pronounced [ǃ͡χũː˦˥] in Western ǃKung/ǃXuun) one makes an alveolar click sound before the x sound (which is like a Scottish or German ch), followed by a long nasal u vowel with a high rising tone.
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