Khoisan languages Khoisan languages !Kung or !’O!Kung is a group of northern dialects of the Ju dialect continuum, which is generally classified as part of the Khoisan language family. !Kung is spoken in northern Namibia and southern Angola by perhaps 15,000 Saan, though this number is uncertain due to the possibility of double counting populations that go by more than one name. ...more on Wikipedia about "!Kung language"
!Xóõ is a Khoisan language with a very large number of phonemes, the most of any known language. These include many clicks and vowel phonations. ...more on Wikipedia about "!Xóõ language"
/Xam, or /Xam Kak!’e, is an extinct Khoisan language of South Africa, part of the !Kwi language group. It was closely related to the N/u language, which still has a few speakers. ...more on Wikipedia about "/Xam language"
Anthony Traill is a linguist who has studied !Xóõ. He wrote a dictionary of the language, A !Xóõ Dictionary, as well as a book on the phonetics of the language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anthony Traill (linguist)"
G/wi or Gǀui (sometimes spelled Dcui) is a Khoisan language of Botswana with 2,500 speakers (2004 Cook). It is part of the G‖ana-G/wi dialect cluster of the Tshu-Khwe family, and is closely related to Naro. ...more on Wikipedia about "G/wi language"
G‖ana (also spelled Gxana, Dxana) is a Khoisan language of Botswana with about 2000 speakers (2004 Cook). It is part of the G‖ana-G/wi dialect cluster, and closely related to Naro. ...more on Wikipedia about "G‖ana language"
Hadza is a language isolate along the southern shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania, with less than a thousand speakers. The Hadza people are still primarily hunter-gatherers, though there have been repeated efforts to settle them. Despite the small number of speakers, language use is vigorous, with most children learning it. However, the recent eradication of the tsetse fly from Hadza lands has cleared the way for cattle herders, charcoal burners, game hunters, and farmers, and the Hadza are losing their water, forest, food, and land to overexploitation and pollution. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hadza language"
The Ju or Zhu languages, actually a dialect continuum, form a branch of the hypothetical Khoisan language family. The better known dialects are !Kung, Ju/’hoan, and ‡Kx’au‖’ein. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ju languages"
Ju|’hoan (also called Zu|’hõasi, Dzu’oasi, Zû-|hoa, Ju/'Hoansi) is a Khoisan language spoken in the Northwest District of Botswana by about 5,000 people ( as of 2002) and by perhaps a comparable number across the border in Namibia. It is a cluster of eastern dialects of the Ju dialect continuum that includes !Kung (!Xűű) and ‡Kx’au‖’ein. It is part of a Southern dialect cluster of the Ju languages according to Snyman (1997). Four varieties are distinguished: Epukiro, Tsumkwe, Rundu, and Omatako ...more on Wikipedia about "Ju/’hoan language"
The Khoisan or Khoesaan languages compose the smallest and least well supported phylum of African languages. Historically, they were mainly spoken by the Khoi and Bushmen (San) people. Today they are only spoken in the Kalahari Desert in southwestern Africa, and in a small area in Tanzania. The only widespread Khoisan language is Nama, with a quarter million speakers; Sandawe is second in number with about 40,000, some monolingual; and the Ju language cluster has some 30,000 speakers total. Many of the other languages are becoming increasingly rare or moribund, and several are known to have become extinct. Most have no written record. The Hadza and Sandawe languages of Tanzania are generally classified as Khoisan, but all of the branches are at best extremely distant linguistically. Many linguists regard the Khoisan phylum to be a yet-unproved hypothesis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khoisan languages"
Korana, or !Ora (autonym !Goragowab), is an extinct Khoisan language of South Africa. An ethnic Korana population of 10,000 lives in South Africa, and perhaps Botswana. ...more on Wikipedia about "Korana language"
Kwadi is an extinct Khoisan language of Angola. Three speakers were fluent in Kwadi in 1971, but as of 1981 it was thought to be extinct. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kwadi 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kxoe language"
Here are all recorded Khoisan languages (also Khoesaan languages), the indigenous languages of southern Africa. Most Khoisan languages are endangered, and several are moribund or extinct. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Khoisan languages"
N/u is a Khoisan language spoken by the ‡Khomani people in South Africa. ...more on Wikipedia about "N/u language"
Nàmá, previously called Hottentot, is the most populous and widespread of the Khoisan languages. It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa by the Namaqua, Damara, and Hai‖om, as well as smaller ethnic groups such as the ‡Khomani. The name for Nama speakers, Khoekhoen, is from the Nama word kxòe "person", with reduplication and the suffix -n to indicate the plural. According to Ethnologue, there were 250,000 speakers as of 1998. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nama language"
Naro is a Khoe language of Botswana and Namibia. There are about 14,000 speakers: 10,000 in Botswana (2004 Cook) and 4000 in Namibia (1998 Maho). This makes it probably the most populous of the Tshu-Khwe languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Naro language"
Sandawe is a tonal language spoken by about 40,000 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 Khoisan language since Albert Drexel in the 1920s, due at first just to the presence of clicks in the language, though later several morphological similarities with the Khoisan languages of southern Africa were proposed. A recent discussion of Sandawe's linguistic classification can be found in Sands (1998). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sandawe language"
Seroa is an extinct Khoisan language of the !Kwi family, spoken in South Africa and Lesotho. The name "Seroa" is an exonym; local or dialectical names were !Gã!ne and ‖Ku‖e. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seroa language"
Shua or Shuakhwe is a Khoisan language of central Botswana with about 6,000 speakers (2004 Cook). ...more on Wikipedia about "Shua language"
Tsoa is a Khoisan language of Botswana and Zimbabwe spoken by about 9300 speakers (Cook 2004). ...more on Wikipedia about "Tsoa language" www.shortopedia.com Is Good For You.
Xiri, or in Dutch 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, but it is now moribund, with less than a hundred scattered speakers left. ...more on Wikipedia about "Xiri language"
‖Ani or /Anda is a Khoisan language of Botswana with about 1,000 speakers. It is a member of the Kxoe dialect continuum. ...more on Wikipedia about "‖Ani language"
‖Xegwi is an extinct !Kwi language of South Africa, near the Swazi border. The last known speaker died in 1988. ...more on Wikipedia about "‖Xegwi language"
‡Hõã or ‡Hoan, a variant of the ethnonym ‡Qhôã, is an unclassified Khoisan language of Botswana. It was once placed in the Southern Khoisan family because it has bilabial clicks and other phonological similarities, but no further evidence for that classification was ever produced. Its vocabulary and syntax suggest that it may actually be in a Northern Khoisan family alongside the Ju languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "‡Hõã language"
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