language: shg

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has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/shg
has gloss	eng: Shwa or Shwakhwe, commonly spelled Shua, is a Khoisan language of Botswana. It is spoken in central Botswana (in Nata and its surroundings), but is also spoken in parts of the Chobe District in the extreme north of Botswana. There are approximately 6,000 speakers (Cook 2004). The term Shwakhwe means people (khwe) from the salty area (shwa). Like many Khoisan languages, it has clicks and ejectives and distinctive tones. Unlike most Khoisan languages, but like Nama, the most neutral word order is SOV, though word order is relatively free. As with most Khoisan languages, there are postpositions. There is a tense-aspect marker ke which often appears in second position in affirmative sentences in the present tense, giving X Aux S O V order (e.g. S Aux O V).
lexicalization	eng: Ganade language
lexicalization	eng: Ganáde language
lexicalization	eng: Shwa language
subclass of	e/Khoe languages
instance of	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Khoe_languages
instance of	http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Khoe_languages