Lower Nossob language

{{Short description|Extinct Khoisan language of Botswana}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Lower Nossob

| states = South Africa, Botswana

| region = Nossob River

| extinct = 2005

| ref = {{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-131.html|title=Lower Nossob|website=UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger|publisher=UNESCO|language=en|access-date=2018-03-17}}

| familycolor = Khoisan

| fam1 = Tuu

| fam2 = Taa–Lower Nossob

| dia1 = ǀʼAuni

| dia2 = ǀHaasi

| iso3 = nsb

| glotto = lowe1407

| glottorefname = Lower-Nosop

| map = Lang Status 01-EX.svg

| mapcaption = {{center|{{small|ǀʼAuni is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}{{cite report |title=Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |publisher=UNESCO |edition=3rd |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026 |date=2010 |page=37}}}}

| ethnicity = {{lang|nsb|ǀʼAuni}}

}}

Lower Nossob is an extinct Khoisan language once spoken along the Nossob River on the border of South Africa and Botswana, near Namibia. It was closely related to the Taa language.

There are two attested dialects: {{lang|nsb|ǀʼAuni}} (pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|aʊ|n|i:}} {{respell|OW|nee}}), or {{lang|nsb|ǀʼAuo}}, recorded by Dorothea Bleek, and {{lang|nsb|ǀHaasi}}, recorded by Robert Story. {{lang|nsb|ǀʼAuni}} is the word they formerly used for themselves; {{lang|nsb|ǀʼAuo}} (or {{lang|nsb|ǀʼAu}}) is what they called their language. {{lang|nsb|ǀauni, ǁauni, Auni}} are misspellings. Other renderings of the name {{lang|nsb|ǀHaasi}} are {{lang|nsb|Kʼuǀha꞉si, Kiǀhasi}}, and {{lang|nsb|Kiǀhazi}}.{{cite book |first=Yvonne |last=Treis |chapter=Names of Khoisan languages and their variants |title=Language, identity, and conceptualization among the Khoisan |editor-first=Mathias |editor-last=Schladt |publisher=Rüdiger Köppe Verlag |pages=463–503 |year=1998 |isbn=978-3-89645-143-9}}