Kgalagadi language is a Southern Bantu language with about 65,000 speakers. It is spoken mainly in the Kgalagadi and Gantsi districts in southern Botswana. There are also speakers of Kgalagadi in the Ngamiland District in the northwest of Botswana.
Kgalagadi is also known as Kgalagari, Kgalagarhi, Kgalagari, Khalagari, Khalakadi, Kxhalaxadi, Qhalaxarzi, Shekgalagadi, Shekgalagari or Kqalaqadi. The Kgalagadi people call their language SheKgalagadi and themselves Bakgalagadi, which means "people of the Kalahari". It is thought that the ancestors of the Kgalagadi people migrated to Botswana from the Transvaal region of South Africa in the 17th century.
Dialects of Kgalagadi include Shengologa, Sheshaga, Shebolaongwe, Shelala, Shekhena, Sheritjhauba and Shekgwatheng. It is closely related to Tswana, and was classified as a dialect of Tswana until recently.
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Details of Kgalagadi pronunciation provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Information about Kgalagadi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kgalagadi_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kgalagadi_peopleo
https://101lasttribes.com/tribes/kgalagadi.html
https://thetribalsociety.com/the-kgalagadi-language/
http://www.language-archives.org/language/xkv
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362724085_A_grammar_sketch_of_the_Shetjhauba_variety_of_Shekgalagadi
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kgal1244
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