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(unicode:ǀXam) (/Kham) (English pronunciation: ), or ''(unicode:ǀXam Kaǃkʼe)'', is an extinct Khoisan language of South Africa, part of the ǃkwi language group. It is closely related to the moribund Nǁng language. ǀXam was used for the South African motto adopted on 27 April 2000, : ' being ''diverse people unite'' or, on a collective scale, ''Unity in Diversity''. However, it is not known if that phrase would have been idiomatic in ǀXam. Because it's extinct, ǀXam is not one of the eleven official languages of South Africa. The pipe at the beginning of the name "ǀXam" represents a dental click, like the English interjection ''tsk, tsk!'' used to express pity or shame. The denotes a voiceless velar fricative. There is little variation in rendering the name, compared to other Khoisan languages. Besides the simple orthographic variant ''(unicode:ǀKham)'', there is a different grammatical form, ''(unicode:ǀKhuai)'' Much of the scholarly work on the ǀXam language was performed by Wilhelm Bleek, a German linguist of the 19th century. He had studied a variety of ǀXam spoken at Achterveld, and (with Lucy Lloyd) another spoken at Strandberg and Katkop.〔Güldemann (2011)〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ǀXam language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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