Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyɛyi) is a Bantu language spoken by many of the approximately 50,000 Yeyi people along the Okavango River in Namibia and Botswana...

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the Okavango River where, apparently, the Yeyi language borrowed the clicks from a West Kalahari Khoe language; a separate development led to a smaller...

The MaYeyi (also: Yeyi or Bayei) are Bantu-speaking people of north-western Botswana and north-eastern Namibia. The Yeyi immigrated to the area in the...

heaviest functional load of click consonants in a Bantu language (approximately tied with Yeyi), with one count finding that 10% of basic vocabulary items...

and Otjiherero by 9%. Other native languages include the Bantu languages Setswana, Gciriku, Fwe, Kuhane, Mbukushu, Yeyi; and the Khoisan Naro, ǃXóõ, Kung-Ekoka...

these as distinct languages, such as Kuvale (R30 > R10). However, Mbukushu, Luyana, and Yeyi, sometimes included with these languages, appear to be more...

Kung-Ekoka Lozi Mbukushu Nambya Naro Ndebele Setswana Shua Tshuwau Tswapong !Xóõ Yeyi Zezuru isiXhosa Lucas, Ceil; Schembri, Adam C. (February 12, 2015). Sociolinguistics...

borrowed clicks as part of a sprachbund, as the Bantu Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa etc.) and Yeyi did; and Neither the ancestors of the Juǀʼhoan nor those...

are only found in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in the neighboring Yeyi language. Kirshenbaum assigns ⟨c!⟩ indifferently...