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2013, privately published, 60 pages, illustrated, bibliography, 21 cms x 29.6 cms, condition: as new.
The 1950's study by EF Potgieter, The Disappearing Bushmen of Lake Chrissie, includes a section by linguist D Ziervogel, who recorded key /Xegwi words and wrote that /Xegwi had 26 different clicks.
This study is full of detail. It tells us, for instance, that fire was made with a flint, tontelbos and a little plucked hair.
Potgieter found 32 Bushmen in the area. He observed that some of them spoke South Sotho, suggesting that they may have originally lived in the eastern Free State or Lesotho.
Potgieter said they still appeared to know their language fairly well. They are not inclined to speak their own tongue in the presence of Swazis or Europeans. But he said that the young Bushmen show signs of forgetting the language.
They called themselves Tlouethle which means people of rock and water. Amongst /Xegwi speakers, Tlouethle, unusually in speech, is produced by breathing in rather than out.
