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Seroa language

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Seroa
ǃUi
Native to	South Africa
Region	Bloemfontein
Ethnicity	ǃUi
Extinct	1870s (Traill 2002)^[1]
Language family	Tuu ǃKwi Eastern Seroa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kqu`
Linguist List	`kqu`
Glottolog	`sero1239`

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 SIIdinDorothea Bleek's classification.

Doculects[edit]

Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculects.^[2]

Label	Researcher	Date	Origin	Notes
ǃUi	Wuras	> 1836	Bethany	Bleek label SIId.
ǃUi	Arbousset	1836	Mokhasi/Puchane	Bleek label SIId.

Seroa was closely related to ǁŨǁʼe and Boshof ǃUi, but analysis of the recorded data has not been enough to determine the boundary between language and dialect.

References[edit]

^ SeroaatEthnologue (25th ed., 2022)

^ Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.