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Peer reviewedMiller-Ockhuizen, Amanda; Sands, Bonny E. – Language & Communication, 1999
Argues that linguists have ignored diversity within the northern Khoesan (NK) group of languages of Southern Africa and this has had serious repercussions both for speakers of these languages and for linguistic theory. The variation that appears within NK has been ignored in part because a single variety has been misunderstood as being the !Kung…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Language Planning
