Editing Juǀʼhoan language (section)

{{Short description|Kx'a language spoken in Southern Africa}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Juǀʼhoan
| image            = WIKITONGUES- Classen speaking Jul’hoan.webm
| imagecaption     = A Juǀʼhoan speaker, recorded in [[Namibia]].
| altname          = South(eastern) ǃXun / Ju
| states           = [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]]
| region           = near border with [[Angola]]
| ethnicity        = [[Juǀʼhoansi]]
| speakers         = 4,000
| ref              = <ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Güldemann |first=Tom |title=<!--International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: 4-Volume Set--> |entry=Khoisan Languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sl_dDVctycgC&pg=RA1-PA362 |encyclopedia=International Encyclopedia of Linguistics |volume=1: AAVE-Esperanto |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195139778 |language=en |page=362}}</ref> <!--The numbers in ''Ethnologue'' add up to far more than the ~16,000 for all ǃKung in Brenzinger (2011)-->
| date             = 2003
| familycolor      = Khoisan
| fam1             = [[Kxʼa languages|Kxʼa]]
| fam2             = [[ǃKung language|ǃKung]]
| dia1             = [[ǂKxʼauǁʼein]]
| iso3             = ktz
| notice           = IPA
| glotto           = juho1239
| glottorefname    = South-Eastern Ju
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|ktz|ʒuᵑ̊ǀʰwã|}}
}}
'''Juǀʼhoan''' ({{IPAc-en|lang|'|dZ|u:|t|w|ae|n}} {{respell|JOO|twan}},<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/in-click-languages-an-echo-of-the-tongues-of-the-ancients.html |title=In Click Languages, an Echo of the Tongues of the Ancients |first=Nicholas |last=Wade |date=March 18, 2003 |newspaper=New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815011941/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/in-click-languages-an-echo-of-the-tongues-of-the-ancients.html |archive-date=2009-08-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.patriotledger.com/story/entertainment/arts/2018/10/07/a-simple-existence-in-photos/9590138007/ |title=A SIMPLE EXISTENCE In photos, a recollection of life among the Bushmen |first=Jody |last=Feinberg |newspaper=The Patriot Ledger |location=Quincy, MA |date=2018-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111041803/https://www.patriotledger.com/story/entertainment/arts/2018/10/07/a-simple-existence-in-photos/9590138007/ |archive-date=2022-11-11}}</ref> {{IPA|ktz|ʒuᵑ̊ǀʰwã|lang}}), also known as '''Southern''' or '''Southeastern ǃKung''' or '''ǃXun''', is the southern variety of the [[ǃKung language|ǃKung]] [[dialect continuum]], spoken in northeastern [[Namibia]] and the Northwest District of [[Botswana]] by [[San Bushmen]] who largely identify themselves as ''[[Juǀʼhoansi]]''. Several regional dialects are distinguished: Epukiro, Tsumǃkwe, Rundu, Omatako and [[ǂKxʼauǁʼein]], with Tsumǃkwe being the best described and often taken as representative.