ǂxoa
Nǀuu
Alternative forms
- ǂʻhoa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǂχoɑ/
- Rhymes: -oɑ
Verb
ǂxoa
- to speak, to chat
- Na ǂxoa Nǀuu
- I speak Nǀuu.
- ǂoo a ke ǂxoa nǀa ng anci
- this man speaks with my father
- 1997 September 4, 00:01:30 from the start, in 1997_09-04[1]:
- ǂi ǂxoa a mos gǀuu
- Don't speak, you're lying.
- to say
- Synonym: ka
- to relate
Synonyms
- ǂkwāa (ǂkhomani)
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