Lower Nossob language

Lower Nossob is an extinct Khoisan language once spoken along the Nossob River on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. It was closely related to the Taa language.

Lower Nossob
Native to	South Africa, Botswana
Region	Nossob River
Ethnicity	ǀʼAuni
Extinct	2005[1]
Language family	Tuu Taa–Lower Nossob Lower Nossob
Dialects	ǀʼAuni ǀHaasi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nsb
Glottolog	lowe1407
ǀʼAuni is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]

There are two attested dialects: ǀʼAuni (pronounced /ˈaʊniː/ OW-nee), or ǀʼAuo, recorded by Dorothea Bleek, and ǀHaasi, recorded by Robert Story. ǀʼAuni is the word they formerly used for themselves; ǀʼAuo (or ǀʼAu) is what they called their language. ǀauni, ǁauni, Auni are misspellings. Other renderings of the name ǀHaasi are Kʼuǀha꞉si, Kiǀhasi, and Kiǀhazi.^[3]

Doculects

Güldemann (2017) lists the following doculects as being Lower Nossob.^[4]

Label	Researcher	Date	Notes
ǀʼAuni	D. Bleek	1937	Bleek label SIV.
Khatia	D. Bleek	(notes)	= ǂʼEinkusi? Bleek label SIVa.
Kiǀhazi	Story	(notes)	= ǀHaasi. Bleek label SIVb.