forces against the Angolan Army and SWAPO. At the end of the Border War, more than one thousand fighters and their families were relocated to Schmidtsdrift in South Africa amid uncertainty over their future in Namibia. After more than a decade living in precarious conditions, the post-Apartheid government bought and donated land for a permanent settlement at Platfontein, near Schmidtsdrift. Only Juǀʼhoan is written, and it is not sufficiently intelligible with the Northwestern dialects for the same literature to be used for both. Varieties The better-known ǃKung dialects are Tsumkwe Juǀʼhoan, Ekoka ǃKung, ǃʼOǃKung, and ǂKxʼauǁʼein. Scholars distinguish between eleven and fifteen dialects, but the boundaries are unclear. There is a clear distinction between North/Northwest vs South/Southeast, but also a diverse Central group that is poorly attested. Heine & Honken (2010) classify the 11 traditionally numbered dialects into three branches of what they consider a single language: Northern–Western ǃXun Northern ǃXun (N1) Maligo (ǃxuun, kúándò ǃxuun "Kwando ǃXuun"; SE Angola) (N2) ǃʼOǃKung (ǃʼo ǃuŋ "Forest ǃXuun"; eastern C Angola) Western ǃXun (W1) — (ǃxūún, ǃʼālè ǃxòān "Valley ǃXuun"; Eenhana district, N Namibia) (W2) ǀʼAkhwe (ǃxūún, ǀʼākhòè ǃxòān "Kwanyama ǃXuun"; Eenhana, N Namibia) (W3) Tsintsabis (ǃxūún; Tsintsabis, Tsumeb district, N Namibia) (K) Kavango ǃXuun (ǃxūún, known as dom ǃxūún "River ǃXuun" in Ekoka; Western Rundu district, N Namibia, & Angola adjacent) Central ǃXun (C1) Gaub (Tsumeb district, N Namibia) (C2) Neitsas (Grootfontein district, N Namibia) tentatively also the Tsintsabis, Leeunes and Mangetti (different from Mangetti Dune) dialects Southeastern ǃXun (E1) Juǀʼhoan (ju-ǀʼhoan(-si); Tsumkwe district, N Namibia, & Bots adjacent) (E2) Dikundu (ǃxun, ju-ǀʼhoa(si); Dikundu, W Caprivi) (E3) ǂKxʼauǁʼein (ju-ǀʼhoan(-si), ǃxun, ǂxʼāōǁʼàèn "Northern people"; Gobabis district, E Namibia) state that speakers of all Northwestern dialects "understand one another to quite some extent" but that they do not understand any of the Southeastern dialects. Sands (2010) classifies ǃKung dialects into four clusters, with the first two being quite close: Northern ǃKung: Southern Angola, around the Cunene, Cubango, Cuito, and Cuando rivers, but with many refugees now in Namibia: ǃʼOǃKung Maligo North-Central ǃKung: Namibia, between the Ovambo River and the Angolan border, around the tributaries of the Okavango River east of Rundu to the Etosha Pan: Tsintsabis Okongo Ovambo Mpunguvlei ǀʼAkhwe (Ekoka) Central ǃKung: The area around Grootfontein, Namibia, west of the central Omatako River and south of the Ovambo River Southeastern ǃKung: Botswana east of the Okavango Delta, and northeast Namibia from near