Kwadi /ˈkwɑːdi/ is an extinct "click language" once spoken in the southwest corner of Angola.
[1] The Kwadi people, called Kwepe (Cuepe) by the Bantu, appear to have been a remnant population of southwestern African hunter-gatherers, otherwise only represented by the Cimba, Kwisi, and the Damara, who adopted the Khoekhoe language.
[5] Kwadi was alternatively known by varieties of the words Koroka (Ba-koroka, Curoca, Ma-koroko, Mu-coroca) and Cuanhoca.
[3] The tone system is unclear, due to limited data and to the poor quality of recordings.
Proto-Khoe–Kwadi *ǃ, *ǂ, *ǁ are replaced with non-click consonants such as /c, tɬ, cʼ, tɬʼ, xʼ, ʔʲ/.
Kwadi nouns distinguished three genders (masculine, feminine, and common), as well as three numbers (singular, dual, and plural).