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On 27 November 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from ǁHus to Owela. The result of the discussion was moved. |
it would be nice to have some explanation of why the name is spelled with two leading slashes. does this indicate a phoneme in the language of origin? — ptk✰ fgs 08:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
The link given under the "External Links" section ( http://manqala.org/rules/mostra.cgi.en?rules/hus/ ) is broken. I tried to find game rules from the http://manqala.org homepage, but that page is written in Catalan which, regrettably, I can not read. The single English page I could find suggests http://www.wikimanqala.org/ as an alternative, but that site is not responding for me. -- TravisM ( talk) 07:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!
-- JeffGBot ( talk) 15:18, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 20:15, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
ǁHus → Owela – The current title, ǁhus, is the Khoekhoe word for the game. Owela is the Ovambo word for the game. The few English language sources that exist (see below) tend to prefer Owela (which isn't surprising since Ovambo is a much more widely spoken language, especially in Namibia where the game is played). Also, ǁhus doesn't make a good title since it doesn't use the Latin alphabet (it begins with a double vertical bar), leading to broken links like the one I found at Omweso. Wikipedia:Article titles strongly discourages titles not written in the Latin alphabet. Nosferattus ( talk) 19:37, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Below are the only English language reliable sources I was able to find on the game. Of these, only the first has substantial content.
Nosferattus ( talk) 19:37, 27 November 2021 (UTC)