Editing Gǀui dialect

{{Short description|Khoe dialect of Botswana}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Gǀui
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|[ᶢǀúi]}}
| states           = [[Botswana]]
| ethnicity        = {{sigfig|1,470|2}} [[Gǀui people|Gǀui]] (2013)<ref name=e25/>
| speakers         = {{sigfig|1,470|2}}
| date             = 2013
| ref              = e25
| speakers2        = {{sigfig|1470|2}} all Gǁana dialects (2011)<ref>Brenzinger, Matthias (2011) "The twelve modern Khoisan languages." In Witzlack-Makarevich & Ernszt (eds.), ''Khoisan languages and linguistics: proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium, Riezlern / Kleinwalsertal'' (Research in Khoisan Studies 29). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.</ref>
| familycolor      = Khoisan
| fam1             = [[Khoe–Kwadi languages|Khoe–Kwadi]]
| fam2             = [[Khoe languages|Khoe]]
| fam3             = Kalahari (Tshu–Khwe)
| fam4             = West
| fam5             = [[Gǁana language|Gǁana]]
| iso3             = gwj
| notice           = IPA
| glotto           = gwii1239
| glottorefname    = /Gwi
}}

'''Gǀui''' or '''Gǀwi''' (pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|w|iː}} {{respell|GWEE}} in English, and also spelled ''ǀGwi, ǀ᪶Ui<!--e.g. in Rainer Voßen 1997 Die Khoe-Sprachen-->, Dcui, Gcwi,'' or ''Cgui'') is a [[Khoe languages|Khoe dialect]] of [[Botswana]] with 2,500 speakers (2004 Cook). It is part of the [[Gǁana language|Gǁana]] dialect cluster, and is closely related to [[Naro language|Naro]]. It has a number of loan words from [[ǂʼAmkoe language|ǂʼAmkoe]].  Gǀui, ǂʼAmkoe, and [[Taa language|Taa]] form the core of the [[Kalahari Basin]] [[sprachbund]], and share a number of characteristic features, including extremely large consonant inventories.

==Phonology==
Gǀui has 93 consonants (with 56 clicks) or 52 consonants (and 20 clicks), depending on analysis. There are ten vowels, and two to six tones, again depending on analysis.

===Clicks===
Gǀui has 24 simple [[click consonant]]s, plus complex clicks variously analyzed as [[consonant cluster]]s or airstream [[contour (linguistics)|contours]]. As with many of the Tshu–Khwe languages, clicks have lost some of their importance under the influence of neighboring [[Bantu languages]]. Many words which previously began with clicks (as shown by [[cognate]]s in related languages) have lost them over the past few centuries in Gǀui. Nonetheless, Gǀui has the largest known inventory of clicks of any Khoe language.

Gǀui has been described with a contrast between [[velar consonant|velar]] and [[uvular consonant|uvular]] clicks. However, all Gǀui clicks are uvular (or pharyngeal); the 'uvular' part of the latter is part of an [[airstream mechanism|airstream]] [[contour (linguistics)|contour]], a transition from a click to a non-click release: effectively, the click transitions into a non-click consonant. (See [[Nǁng language]] for a similar situation in another language.) Nakagawa proposes that the contour and glottalized clicks are not single sounds, but sequences of a click and a uvular or glottal consonant, though Miller (2011) notes that such an analysis creates problems when extended to other languages with clicks.

Altogether there are thirteen such series, or "accompaniments", and all 52 possible combinations are found. Except for the lack of bilabial clicks, the inventory is nearly identical to that of some speakers of [[ǂʼAmkoe language|ǂʼAmkoe]], which is in intense contact with Gǀui and may have borrowed some of its clicks from Gǀui, and lost others not found in Gǀui.

Miller (2011), in a comparative study with other languages, interprets Nakagawa's description as follows. (Nakagawa's {{angbr IPA|kǃʔ}} and {{angbr IPA|ǃqxʼ}} are analyzed as {{IPA|[ᵑǃˀ]}} and {{IPA|[ǃ͡kxʼ]}}, respectively.)<ref>Amanda Miller, 2011. "The Representation of Clicks". In Oostendorp et al. eds., ''The Blackwell Companion to Phonology''.</ref>

{| class="wikitable" 
! rowspan=2 colspan=2|
! colspan=2 | affricated clicks
! colspan=2 | 'sharp' clicks
|-
! [[dental click|dental]] || [[alveolar lateral click|lateral]] || [[postalveolar click|alveolar]] || [[palatal click|palatal]]
|-
! rowspan=7 {{vert header|va=middle|Simple clicks}}
! [[voice (phonetics)|voiced]]
| {{IPA link|ᶢǀ}} || {{IPA link|ᶢǁ}} || {{IPA link|ᶢǃ}} || {{IPA link|ᶢǂ}}
|-
! [[tenuis consonant|tenuis]]
| {{IPA link|ᵏǀ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǁ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǃ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǂ}}
|-
! [[Aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]]
| {{IPA link|ᵏǀʰ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǁʰ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǃʰ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǂʰ}}
|-
! [[glottalized click|glottalized]] oral
| {{IPA link|ᵏǀʼ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǁʼ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǃʼ}} || {{IPA link|ᵏǂʼ}}
|-
! [[nasal click|nasal]]
| {{IPA link|ᵑǀ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑǁ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑǃ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑǂ}}
|-
! [[voicelessness|voiceless]] aspirated nasal
| {{IPA link|ᵑ̊ǀʰ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑ̊ǁʰ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑ̊ǃʰ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑ̊ǂʰ}}
|-
! glottalized nasal
| {{IPA link|ᵑǀˀ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑǁˀ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑǃˀ}} || {{IPA link|ᵑǂˀ}}
|-
! rowspan=7 {{vert header|va=middle|[[linguo-pulmonic consonant|Contours]]}}
! (prenasalized) voiced 
| {{IPA|ᶢǀ͡ɢ}} || {{IPA|ᶢǁ͡ɢ}} || {{IPA|ᶢǃ͡ɢ}} || {{IPA|ᶢǂ͡ɢ}}
|-
! tenuis 
| {{IPA|ǀ͡q}} || {{IPA|ǁ͡q}} || {{IPA|ǃ͡q}} || {{IPA|ǂ͡q}}
|-
! aspirated 
| {{IPA|ǀ͡qʰ}} || {{IPA|ǁ͡qʰ}} || {{IPA|ǃ͡qʰ}} || {{IPA|ǂ͡qʰ}}
|-
! voiceless [[fricative consonant|fricative]] 
| {{IPA|ǀ͡χ}} || {{IPA|ǁ͡χ}} || {{IPA|ǃ͡χ}} || {{IPA|ǂ͡χ}}
|-
! [[Glottalized click#Ejective clicks|ejective]] 
| {{IPA|ǀ͡qʼ}} || {{IPA|ǁ͡qʼ}} || {{IPA|ǃ͡qʼ}} || {{IPA|ǂ͡qʼ}}
|-
!uvular affricate
|{{IPA|ǀ͡qχ}}
|{{IPA|ǁ͡qχ}}
|{{IPA|ǃ͡qχ}}
|{{IPA|ǂ͡qχ}}
|-
! uvular ejective affricate 
| {{IPA|ǀ͡qχʼ}} || {{IPA|ǁ͡qχʼ}} || {{IPA|ǃ͡qχʼ}} || {{IPA|ǂ͡qχʼ}}
|}
The voiced contour ('uvular') clicks tend to be prenasalized, {{IPA|[ɴǃɢ]}}.
As in the majority of languages with clicks, the glottalized nasal series {{IPA|/ᵑǃˀ/}} are pronounced with a glottal [[voice onset time|release]] {{IPA|[ǃˀ]}} in initial position, and prenasalized {{IPA|[ᵑˀǃ]}} after a vowel. The contrast between glottalized oral and glottalized nasal clicks is unusual, but has also been reported from [[ǂʼAmkoe language|ǂʼAmkoe]] and [[Yeyi language|Yeyi]] since Nakagawa announced its discovery in Gǀui. The Khute dialect of Gǀui also has [[preglottalized nasal click]]s allophonically.  They developed from glottalized nasal clicks before pharyngealized vowels, perhaps under ǂʼAmkoe influence:

{| class=wikitable
|+Preglottalized nasal clicks in Khute dialect<ref>Gerlach 2015:&nbsp;362, from Nakagawa 2006:&nbsp;172</ref>
|-
!Khute Gǀui||other Gǀui||English
|-
|{{IPA|[ˀᵑǂúˤrī]}}||{{IPA|[ᵑǂˀúˤrī]}}||"adam's apple" (pharyngealized vowel)
|-
|{{IPA|[ᵑǂˀúbī]}}||{{IPA|[ᵑǂˀúbī]}}||"egg" (modal vowel)
|}

===Other consonants===

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|-
|+Gǀui consonants<ref>Nakagawa, Hirosi. (1996). "[http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68374/1/ASM_S_22_101.pdf An Outline of ǀGui Phonology]". ''African Study Monographs'', Suppl. 22, 101–124.</ref>
!colspan=2 rowspan=2|
!rowspan=2| [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
!colspan=2| [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
!rowspan=2| [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
!rowspan=2| [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
!rowspan=2| [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]
!rowspan=2| [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! <small>plain</small>
! <small>[[Affricate consonant|affric.]]</small>
|-
! colspan=2| [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
|
|
| ({{IPA link|ŋ}})
|
|
|-
! rowspan=4| [[Stop consonant|Plosive]]
! <small>[[Voicelessness|voiceless]]</small>
| {{IPA link|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{IPA link|ts}}
| {{IPA link|c}}
| {{IPA link|k}}
| {{IPA link|q}}
| {{IPA link|ʔ}}
|-
! <small>[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|dz}}
| {{IPA link|ɟ}}
| {{IPA link|g}}
| {{IPA link|ɢ}}
| 
|-
! <small>[[Aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]]</small>
| {{IPA link|pʰ}}
| {{IPA link|tʰ}}
| {{IPA link|tsʰ}}
| {{IPA link|cʰ}}
| {{IPA link|kʰ}}
| {{IPA link|qʰ}}
|
|-
! <small>[[Ejective consonant|ejective]]</small>
|
| ({{IPA link|tʼ}})
| {{IPA link|tsʼ}}
| {{IPA link|cʼ}}
| {{IPA link|kʼ}}, {{IPA link|kxʼ}}
| {{IPA link|qʼ}}
|
|-
! rowspan=2| Uvular<br>affrication
! <small>plain</small>
|
| {{IPA|tχ}}
| {{IPA|tsχ}}
|
|
|
|
|-
! <small>[[ejective consonant|ejective]]</small>
|
| {{IPA link|tqχʼ}}
| {{IPA link|tsqχʼ}}
|
|
|
|
|-
! colspan=2| [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|
|
| {{IPA link|s}}
|
|
| {{IPA link|χ}}
| {{IPA link|h}}
|-
! colspan=2| [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| {{IPA link|w}}
| {{IPA link|ɾ}}~{{IPA link|l}}
|
| {{IPA link|j}}
|
|
|
|}

Most words are of the form CV, CVV, CVCV, CVN, where C stands for a consonant, V for a vowel, and N for a nasal consonant /m, n/. In CVCV words, only a limited set of consonants /{{IPA|b m ɾ n j w}}/ may occur in medial position (the second syllable). Of these, two /{{IPA|n, ɾ}}/ may not occur at the beginning of a word, and due to restrictions with nasal vowels may be argued to be allophonic. The /{{IPA|n, ɾ}}/ is pronounced {{IPA|[l]}} after a lateral click or a pharyngeal vowel. {{IPA|/ŋ/}} only occurs in [[Ideophone|mimesis]]. {{IPA|/tʼ/}} occurs in a single word, ''t'aa'' 'to carve', which is not widely known.

The palatals, which are unique among Khoisan languages to Gǁana-Gǀui, derive historically from the alveolars before non-pharyngealized vowels. In [[Gǁana language|Gǁana]] this shift has only partly occurred.

{{IPA|/tqχʼ/}} and {{IPA|/tsqχʼ/}} have also been analyzed as {{IPA|/tχʼ/}} and {{IPA|/tsχʼ/}}, the ejective homologues of {{IPA|/tχ/}} and {{IPA|/tsχ/}}.  However, their pronunciation is {{IPA|[tqχʼ]}} and {{IPA|[tsqχʼ]}}.

===Vowels===
Gǀui has five modal vowels, {{IPA|/a e i o u/}}, three nasal vowels, {{IPA|/ã ẽ õ/}}, and two pharyngeal vowels, {{IPA|/aˤ oˤ/}}. There are diphthongs {{IPA|[o͜a]}} and {{IPA|[o͜aˤ]}}, but they are allophones of {{IPA|/o/}}. Gǀui also has [[breathy-voice]] vowels, but they are described as part of the tone system.

Only the five modal vowels {{IPA|/a e i o u/}} occur in mono[[mora (linguistics)|mora]]ic (CV or V) roots, which except for the noun ''χò'' 'thing, place, case' are all grammatical morphemes. These are reduced to three nasal vowels {{IPA|/ã ẽ õ/}} after nasal consonants, including the glottalized nasal clicks.

The modal vowels and the pharyngeal vowels, {{IPA|/aˤ oˤ/o͜aˤ/}}, occur as the first vowel (V1) of bimoraic roots, C'''V'''CV, C'''V'''V, and C'''V'''N, though the modal vowels are reduced to {{IPA|/a e i o͜a/}} before a nasal coda, C'''V'''N. This {{IPA|[o͜a]}} corresponds to {{IPA|/o/}} in Gǁana. Pharyngeal {{IPA|/oˤ/}} and {{IPA|[o͜aˤ]}} are also in complementary distribution: {{IPA|[oˤ]}} in CVV words and {{IPA|[o͜aˤ]}} in CVCV and CVN words; some speakers use {{IPA|[o͜aˤ]}} in CVV roots too, so that their pharyngeal vowels are reduced to {{IPA|[aˤ o͜aˤ]}}.

The modal and nasal vowels (but not the pharyngeals) occur as the second vowel (V2) of bimoraic roots, CVC'''V''' or CV'''V''', though only modal vowels may follow the medial consonants {{IPA|/b ɾ/}}, and only nasal vowels follow the medial consonants {{IPA|/m n/}}. Either oral or nasal vowels may follow {{IPA|/j w/}} or null (CVV roots). That is, medial {{IPA|/m n/}} may be seen as allophones of {{IPA|/b ɾ/}}.

The initial consonant (C1) may be any but {{IPA|/n ɾ/}}. The medial consonant (C2) may be {{IPA|/b ɾ m n j w/}}. N may be {{IPA|/m n/}}.

There are other vowel restrictions. V1 is always {{IPA|/i/}} in CVCV words when C1 is non-click palatal, for example. (This is because those sounds arose historically from alveolars followed by {{IPA|/i/}}, which are still found in Naro.) Uvular(ized) consonants cause vowel lowering.

===Tone===
Gǀui may be analyzed as having two abstract phonemic tones, plus [[breathy voice]], which is covered here rather than under vowels.

Monosyllabic morphemes carry one of two tones, high and low. Bimoraic roots carry one of six tones: high-level, high-mid (or "high falling"), mid-low (or "mid"), low-mid dipping/rising, high falling (or "falling"), and low falling (or "low"). Low falling and low-mid are accompanied by a [[breathy voice]] phonation, the other four with a clear phonation. The high and low falling tones form a natural class, triggering for example a high tone on the suffix -si, whereas the other four root tones trigger a low tone on -si.

That is, there are two tones on CV and V roots; two tones on bimoraic roots with breathy vowels, one of them falling; and four tones on bimoraic roots with other vowels, one of them falling. Thus there are four phonemic tones on CVCV, CVV, and CVN roots, the number expected if there are two possible tones on each mora, with moraic N carrying tone, though their contours are not simple juxtapositions of high/low + high/low.

==Dialects==
* Khute
* Standard Gǀwi

==References==
{{reflist}}
* Nakagawa, Hirosi. 1995. "A Preliminary Report on the Click Accompaniments in ǀGui". ''Journal of the International Phonetic Association'', 25.2, 49–63. [[doi:10.1017/S0025100300005168]]
* Nakagawa, Hirosi. 1996. "[http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68374/1/ASM_S_22_101.pdf An Outline of ǀGui Phonology]". ''African Study Monographs'', Suppl. 22, 101–124.
* Nakagawa, Hirosi. 2006. ''Aspects of the phonetic and phonological structure of the Gǀui language.'' Ph.D. dissertation, University of Witwatersrand. [[hdl:10539/4517]]

==External links==
*[http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100\ckh\kho&limit=-1 Gǀui basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database]

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