The clitic nature of person-gender-number markers in NaroFootnote

¹Naro is a Khoesan language spoken in southern Africa, in the Republics of Botswana and Namibia. Other Khoesan languages spoken in the southern African sub-continent include Nama, ||Gana, |Gwi, Tswaa, and !Xoo. The population of Naro speakers in Botswana is estimated at 10 000 (Lewis, Simons and Fennig 2014). In addition to the Republics of Botswana and Namibia, Khoesan languages are spoken in the Republic of South Africa. The variety of Naro described in this article is the one spoken in the Republic of Botswana. This is a revised version of a paper presented at the International Conference on African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century, held at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, from 6–8 August, 2014.

We are immensely thankful to Mr Isaac Saul, a graduate student of the University of Botswana and native speaker of Naro from D'Kar community, with whom we verified the data and who also provided supplementary data on Naro.

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