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Lower Nossob

Lower Nossob is an extinct Tuu language once spoken along the Nossob River on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. It was closely related to the Taa language. There are two attested dialects: ǀʼAuni, or ǀʼAuo, recorded by Dorothea Bleek, and ǀHaasi, recorded by Robert Story. Tuu languages were once accepted as a branch of the now-obsolete Khoisan language family. Khoisan languages are characterised by the presence of numerous click consonants, produced by snapping the tongue against the palate or teeth. The Tuu languages, along with neighboring ǂʼAmkoe, are known for being the only natural languages in the world to have bilabial clicks as distinctive speech sounds.

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