The provincial motto, Sa || a! aĩsi ' uĩsi (“ We go to a better life ”), is in the Nǀu language of the Nǁnǂe ( ǂKhomani ) people.

The Leonese region was a separate region before democracy in the 1970s, and had its own language, Leonese, which is moribund.

All but the Hokkaidō language are extinct, with the last speaker of Sakhalin Ainu having died in 1994 ; and Hokkaidō Ainu is moribund, though there are ongoing attempts to revive it.

Ainu is a moribund language, and has been endangered for at least the past few decades.

The terms " living " and " endangered " are defined by the classification of " Language Types " in ISO 639-3 ; " vibrant " is equivalent to " living " or sometimes " endangered " in ISO, depending on efforts to preserve the language, and " moribund " is " endangered " in ISO.

The language is almost moribund, with no children learning it, as all Kusunda speakers have married outside their ethnicity.

Wichita is a moribund Caddoan language spoken in Oklahoma by the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.

or, commonly known by its primary dialect, is a moribund Tuu ( Khoisan ) language once spoken in South Africa.

There is some evidence that the speakers of the Paleosiberian languages such as the Ket language, which is the only surviving member of the Yeniseian family that is not moribund, migrated to their current homeland along the Yenisei River in Central Siberia from an area South of the Altai Mountains in the general vicinity of Mongolia or Northwest China within the last 2500 years or so ( although there is no evidence that this is related to the Altaic languages ).

However, in large portions of the Southeast United States where it is known that there was considerable pre-Columbian linguistic diversity, there are no attested indigenous languages and the populations in question either left no survivors, or all remaining speakers of relocated tribes with diminished numbers underwent language shift as their ancestral languages became moribund.

If the decline is severe, the language may be endangered, moribund, or extinct.

The Ainu language of the indigenous Ainu people of northern Japan is currently moribund, but efforts are underway to revive the Ainu language.

Ongota ( also known as Birale 639-3, Birayle ) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia.

" Ongota or Birale: a moribund language of Gemu-Gofa ( Ethiopia )".

Korana, or ǃOra, is a moribund Khoe language of South Africa.

At present, there are about 70 native users of Vilamovian, the majority of them elderly people ; Vilamovian is therefore a moribund language.

The oldest analysis is from the 19th century ( prephonological era ), by Thomas Bridges ( 1894 ); from the middle of the 20th century Haudricourt ( 1952 ) and Holmer ( 1953 ); and towards the end of the 20th century, the last phonological studies were made on this moribund language by Guerra Eissmann ( 1990 ), Salas y Valencia ( 1990 ), and Aguilera ( 2000 ).

The language is unwritten and moribund ; in the 1970s residents of the chief Alutor village of Vyvenka under the age of 25 did not know the language.

A language that has reached such a reduced stage of use is generally considered moribund.

Note: " Minyago Yugilla ", according to one source, is not written in a real language ; according to other sources, it is in Kamilaroi ( Gamilaraay ), a now moribund Australian aboriginal language.

Yurok ( also Weitspekan ) is a moribund Algic language.

In the southeast, in eastern South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language or languages by the languages of the Nguni cluster ( especially Zulu, Xhosa, and Phuthi, but also to a lesser extent Swazi and Ndebele ), and spread from them in a reduced fashion to the Zulu-based pidgin Fanagalo, Sesotho, Tsonga, Ronga, the Mzimba dialect of Tumbuka, and more recently to Ndau and urban varieties of Pedi, where the spread of clicks is an ongoing process.

The Tuu family consists of two language clusters, which are related to each other at about the distance of Khoekhoe and Tshukhwe within Khoe.

Until the rediscovery of a few elderly speakers of Nǁng in the 1990s, Taa was thought to be the last surviving member of the Tuu language family.

belongs to the Tuu () language family, with extinct

The Khoe languages, Tuu languages, Kx ' a languages, Hadza language and Sandawe language ( the latter two being Tanzanian language isolates ) are frequently grouped together in the catch all Khoisan categorization, despite the lack of a definitive recent common origin of these languages in a common language family.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

Clicks occur in all three Khoisan language families of southern Africa, where they may be the most numerous consonants.

The Khoisan languages ( also known as the Khoesan or Khoesaan languages ) are the click languages of Africa which do not belong to other language families.

The only widespread Khoisan language is Khoekhoe (" Nàmá ") of Namibia, with a quarter of a million speakers ; Sandawe in Tanzania is second in number with about 40, 000, some monolingual ; and the Juu language cluster of the northern Kalahari is spoken by some 30, 000 people.

Westphal is known for his early rejection of the Khoisan language family ( Starostin 2003 ).

With about 800 speakers in Tanzania, Hadza appears to be unrelated to any other language ; genetically, the Hadza people are unrelated to the Khoisan peoples of Southern Africa, and their closest relatives may be among the Pygmies of Central Africa.

A Haiǁom language is listed in most Khoisan references.

The motto ǃke e: ǀxarra ǁke is written in the Khoisan language of the ǀXam people and translates literally to " diverse people unite ".

: The motto is:! ke e: / xarra // ke, written in the Khoisan language of the / Xam people, literally meaning " diverse people unite ".

Both the San and the Nama were Khoisan peoples, and spoke languages from the Khoisan language group.

Known as Oorlams, these Khoisan adopted Boer customs and spoke a language similar to Afrikaans.

The distribution ( green ) of the Khoisan languages | various language families spoken by Khoisan peoples.

The Khoisan language Taa ( or! Xóõ ) has pharyngealized vowels that contrast phonemically with voiced, breathy, and epiglottalized vowels.

Language families which distinguish ejective consonants include all three Caucasian families ( Northwest Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian languages and Kartvelian Georgian language ); the Athabaskan, Siouan and Salishan families of North America, along with the many diverse families of the Pacific Northwest from central California to British Columbia ; the Mayan family and Aymara ; the southern varieties of Quechua ( Qusqu-Qullaw ); the Afro-Asiatic family ( notably most of the Cushitic and Omotic languages, Hausa and South Semitic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya ) and a few Nilo-Saharan languages ; Sandawe, Hadza, and the Khoisan families of southern Africa.

Taa, also known as! Xoon, ǃXóõ or Tsasi, is a Khoisan language known for its large number of phonemes, perhaps the largest in the world.

Short, saffron-colored, and in other respects physically unlike the Nganguela, Ovambo, and Nyaneka-Humbe, they spoke a language of the! Xu-Angola or Maligo set of tongues referred to as Khoisan or Click languages ( the exclamation point denotes a specific kind of click ), whose precise relations to each other are not yet fully understood by observers.

The Khoekhoe language, or Khoekhoegowab, also known by the ethnic term Nàmá and previously the now-discouraged term Hottentot, is the most widespread of those languages of southern Africa which contain many " click " sounds and have therefore been loosely classified as Khoisan languages.

Inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip speak a number of African languages: most of them members of the Bantu language family, although there is also at least one language in the northwest of the strip ( on the Namibia / Angola border ) which is a Khoisan language: Hukwe.