Yeyi language Totally Explained

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Yeyi is a moribund Bantu language with about 40,000 speakers in Northern Botswana and 5000 in the Caprivi Strip. Yeyi, influenced by the Juu languages in the Khoisan phylum, has the highest known number of distinct click sounds of any Bantu language: dental, alveolar, palatal, and lateral. It is one of the few non-Khoisan languages with any click sounds at all. Unfortunately, though most of its older speakers prefer Yeyi in normal conversation, it's being gradually phased out by a popular move towards Tswana.

Grammar

Yeyi is a member of the R Bantu languages, and though it shares the main Bantu characteristics (classes etc.), it isn't closely related to any other language within the Bantu languages. It has been phonetically influenced by the Ju languages, and its lexicon is mostly based on Luyana and Herero. Most of the Yeyi people now speak Tswana and as such there has been a short linguistic continuum between the two languages since most of the Yeyi were haphazardly politically united with the Tswana under the flag of Botswana. Tswana is the national language, and Yeyi was never duly recognised until it was too late. Yeyi's main dialect is Shirwanga, in both Botswana and the Namibia.

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