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Khoisan languages
The Khoisan languages (also known as the Khoesan or Khoesaan languages) are the click languages of Africa, which do not belong to other language families. They include languages indigenous to southern and eastern Africa, though some, such as the Khoi languages, appear to have moved to their current...
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!Xóõ Language
Taa, also known as ǃXóõ, is a Khoisan language with a very large number of phonemes (speech sounds), with at least 58 consonants, 31 vowels, and four tones (Traill 1985, 1994 on East ǃXoon), or at least 87 consonants, 20 vowels, and two tones (DoBeS...
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N|u Language
Nǀu or Nǀuu, also known as Nǀhuki, ǂKhomani, or Nǁngǃke, is a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa. The name ǂKhomani is used by the South African government, but apart from that is not recognized by the Nǁnǂe....
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Seroa language
Seroa is a dialect of the extinct |Xam language of the ǃKwi family, spoken in South Africa and Lesotho. The name "Seroa" is an exonym from Sesotho meaning "language of the San" derived from the general Sesotho name "Baroa" (or "Barwa" in South...
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Kxoe language
Kxoe is a Khoisan dialect continuum of Namibia, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and a few in Zambia, with some 11,000 speakers. It is learned locally as a second language in Namibia, but the language is being lost in Botswana as speakers shift to...
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Shua language
Shwa or Shwakhwe, commonly spelled Shua, is a Khoisan language of Botswana. It is spoken in central Botswana (in Nata and its surroundings), but is also spoken in parts of the Chobe District in the extreme north of Botswana. There are approximately...
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Xiri language
Xiri, or in Afrikaans orthography Griqua (ethnonym Xirigowap, also called "Cape Hottentot"), is a Khoisan language of South Africa. It is related to Nama. Xiri was once spoken by Griqua along the entire coast of South Africa from Namibia to Lesotho,...
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- xii
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Kwadi language
Kwadi is an extinct Khoisan language spoken in the southwest corner of Angola. Three speakers were fluent in Kwadi in 1971, but as of 1981 it was thought to be extinct.
Because Kwadi was poorly recorded, there is not much evidence with which to...
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Hadza language
Hadza is a language isolate spoken by fewer than a thousand Hadza people along the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania, the last full-time hunter-gatherers in Africa. Despite the small number of speakers, language use is vigorous, with most children...
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Naro Language
Naro (also Nharo) is a Khoe language spoken in the Ghanzi District of Botswana and in eastern Namibia, where it is sometimes called Nharo. There are about 14,000 speakers: 10,000 in Botswana (2004 Cook) and 4,000 in Namibia (1998 Maho). This makes...
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Nama Language
The Khoekhoe language, or Khoekhoegowab, also known by the ethnic term Nàmá and previously the now discouraged term Hottentot, is the most populous and widespread of the Khoisan languages. It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in...
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Korana Language
Korana, or ǃOra, is an moribund Khoisan language of South Africa. An ethnic Korana population (also called Griqua) of 10,000 live in South Africa, and perhaps Botswana, with perhaps half a dozen elderly speakers as of 2008.
ǃOra is related to Nama,...
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Sandawe Language
Sandawe or Sandawi is a tonal language spoken by about 40,000 Sandawe people in the Dodoma region of Tanzania. Language use is vigorous among both adults and children, with people in some areas monolingual. Sandawe has generally been classified as a...
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