Talk:ǂKxʼaoǁʼae

Lemma

Is the name supposed to be formated like that?--Rayc 19:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

The lemma contains quotation marks (’) where there should probably be apostrophes (' or ʼ).—Wikipeditor 17:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

It also has DOUBLE DAGGER (‡) and DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (‖) where it technically should have LATIN LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK (ǂ) and LATIN LETTER LATEREAL CLICK (ǁ). But I don't know whether we want to have these characters in article titles. --Ptcamn 19:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

For (North) Korean articles, there is a Wikipedia naming convention not to use diacritics and apostrophes in a lemma, which might be based on some Wikipedia-wide policy. Wikipeditor 00:05, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

DOUBLE DAGGER + DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE

If these strange characters are going to be used in the article title as substitutes for IPA symbols, then the least I can expect is that what they symbolize be explained in each of the articles, or even better, explained briefly on this page. As it is now I can't see any way of finding out what they mean (other than the fact that someone explained previously).  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  01:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually, as far as I know, KhoiSan languages can't have clicks in the middle of words (unlike some Kintu/Bantu languages that have adopted KhoiSan click sounds), only at the beginning.

Would someone like to explain how this article can have this name, a name that disobeys a fundamental rule in the KhoiSan languages (and doesn't look like an exonym)? Is it perhaps 2 words strung together? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 06:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

That rule only applies to wordstems. In all likelyhood the name is composed of two words, namely "ǂkxʼau" and "ǁʼein", whatever they might mean. In Nama there are actually a lot of words that have mid-word clicks. — N-true 03:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Great, thanks. I also thought it was due to juxtaposing the names of two languages, but the fact that (before my move) the article title said it was only one language was confusing. It would be nice if the article actually discussed its subject, because it's currently a waste... Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 12:13, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Can we have someone correctly pronounce the name and add an audio file to the first sentence? Right now I think 99% of readers (including myself) will be clueless. Prinsgezinde (talk) 13:24, 9 April 2021 (UTC)