Gcwi

G2C3W4I1
/ɡwi/

noun

A certain ethnic group in Africa.

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Meanings

nounGcwi pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyA certain ethnic group in Africa.

    […] Wayeyi, Hambukushu, Naro and Gcwi Bushmen, and many others—have been striving for greater recognition, […]

    2001, Thomas J. Larson, Alec Campbell, Dibebe of the Okavango: The Thrilling, Amazing Adventures, page ix
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    Previously flexible relations of production were transformed into ethnic categories defined by criteria of race, language, and economic status. Although self-referent names of Khoisan-speaking peoples (Zhu, Gcwi, Gxana, Deti, Qoo, and a dozen others) continue […]

    1995, Articulating hidden histories: exploring the influence of Eric R. Wolf (Jane Schneider, Rayna Rapp), page 318

    Again, these Gcwi are supposed to speak a different language. It is very interesting that on the western edge of the Kalahari, in Great Namaqualand, a Bushman tribe called 'Nasenstocktrager' is said to live who also carry a piece of […]

    1997, Edwin N. Wilmsen, The Kalahari ethnographies (1896-1898) of Siegfried Passarge
proper noun
  1. The lect spoken by this group.

    […] about 12000 speakers; Gcwi and Gxana (Botswana), with about 6000 speakers; the Zhu language (Namibia and Botswana), with about 11000 speakers; […]

    1997, Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara (John Middleton), volume 2
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