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Preferred term

xiiXiri  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Xiri or Xirikwa, in Afrikaans orthography Gri or Griqua (ethnonym Xirigowap, also called "Cape Hottentot"), is a Khoe language of South Africa. It is related to Nama. Xiri was once spoken along the entire coast of South Africa from Namibia to Lesotho, but it is now moribund, with less than a hundred scattered speakers left.

Entry terms

  • Xiri language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xii

Notation

  • xii

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URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xii

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