Southeastern !Xun, Northwestern !Xun, Central !Xun Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) Ju !Xun (Ekoka) Kung-Ekoka !Kung Ekoka-!Xû Kung !Ku !Xu !Hu Qxü !Khung !Xung Ekoka I imported the dataset I download from The Endangered Languages Database into Google Sheet, I did not do any data cleaning rather used the data as is, the only thing I did was to add a header line to the dataset in Google Sheet and put some column names in it. The data pipeline is simple, I used Google Sheets and Google Data Studio to create this map. I built a data pipeline from a dataset I got from The Endangered Languages Database Data Pipeline Why am I telling you this, Meänkieli happens to be one of the endangered languages and that lead me into getting more into how many endangered languages there are around the world. There were many times as a grown-up that I would have had use of knowing the Meänkieli language, I remember one time I was up there to visit family, my aunt took me to see my grandfathers brother, we could not communicate without my aunt, as my grandfather’s brother did not speak Swedish, he spoke Meänkieli and finish which I was not able to speak. I did not grow up in this area, I never learnt the language, and my mom was not interested in teaching it to me and my siblings even when we spend most summers in Meänmaa. Meänmaa ( Meänkieli for ‘”Our Land”‘) is the name of this area in Meänkieli. My family on my mother’s side is speaking a dying language named Meänkieli, which is spoken in the valley of the Torne River. Its distribution closely mirrors that of related genus Tromotriche.Recently in my newsfeed, I came to see a note that 21st February was the International Mother Language celebration day, this “piqued my interest” further, so I started to read up on what the celebration was all about and it lead me into the area of Endangered Languages. In distribution, the genus Quaqua is restricted to the western (winter-rainfall) region of South Africa & Namibia. The flowers of other species however, are larger, reaching a maximum diameter of 27 mm and are dark, papillate, and usually have a repulsive odor of urine or excrement. The flowers of some species are sweet smelling (faintly of honey or lemon), attractive and rather small (between 7 and 15 mm in diameter). There are often ten along each stem, vertically arranged in distichous series. Quaqua flowers are distinctive from those of other southern African stapeliads for their numerous inflorescences emerging from each stem, especially closer to the ends. A few species lack the spikes or have smoothly rounded tubercles. Species of Quaqua are usually characterised by having stout, firm, 4 or 5-sided stems bearing conical tubercles which often have a tough, tapering spike at their ends. Quaqua ramosa, from the western Karoo, locally called "Ou Ram" ("old ram"), is unusual in having rounded tubercles instead of the typical quaqua spikes
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