Seroa language
Seroa, or ǃUi, is a ǃKwi language or dialect of South Africa that went extinct in the 19th century. It was spoken in the area of Bloemfontein. Seroa is the Sesotho name, literally "language of the Baroa (Bushmen)"; the people called themselves ǃUi (that is, ǃKwi), which just means 'people'. The language is labeled SIId in Dorothea Bleek's classification.
| Seroa | |
|---|---|
| ǃUi | |
| Region | South Africa |
| Extinct | The last speaker died in the 1870s (Traill 2002) |
Tuu
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kqu |
| Glottolog | sero1239 |
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