Excerpt from 2016 book on indigenous South African /Xam Bushmen myths and its subsequent transpositions into South African, especially Afrikaans literature. The /Xam was the language of the Cape Bushman, the first people of the southern continent. Afrikaans is the youngest language of South Africa, which has at least one major, perhaps central impetus taken up by many of its central important writers, in the oral tradition of the /Xam. The monograph also deals with language death. /Xam is no longer spoken, but died with 28 other Khoi and San (both First Peoples) languages. Afrikaans is under great duress.
Excerpt from 2016 book on indigenous South African /Xam Bushmen myths and its subsequent transpositions into South African, especially Afrikaans literature. The /Xam was the language of the Cape Bushman, the first people of the southern continent. Afrikaans is the youngest language of South Africa, which has at least one major, perhaps central impetus taken up by many of its central important writers, in the oral tradition of the /Xam. The monograph also deals with language death. /Xam is no longer spoken, but died with 28 other Khoi and San (both First Peoples) languages. Afrikaans is under great duress.
Excerpt from 2016 book on indigenous South African /Xam Bushmen myths and its subsequent transpositions into South African, especially Afrikaans literature. The /Xam was the language of the Cape Bushman, the first people of the southern continent. Afrikaans is the youngest language of South Africa, which has at least one major, perhaps central impetus taken up by many of its central important writers, in the oral tradition of the /Xam. The monograph also deals with language death. /Xam is no longer spoken, but died with 28 other Khoi and San (both First Peoples) languages. Afrikaans is under great duress.