| Xiri | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | South Africa, Namibia |
| Ethnicity | Griqua people |
| Native speakers | 87? (2000)[1] |
| Language family |
Khoe
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xii |
Xiri or Xirikwa, in Afrikaans orthography Gri or Griqua (ethnonym Xirigowap, also called "Cape Hottentot"), is a Khoe language of South Africa. It is related to Nama. Xiri was once spoken along the entire coast of South Africa from Namibia to Lesotho, but it is now moribund, with less than a hundred scattered speakers left.
Despite the identity of their names, the Xirigowap are not the same as the mixed Griqua people.
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