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The Khoi languages were the first Khoisan languages known to European colonists and are famous for their clicks, though these are not as extensive as in other Khoisan language families. There are two primary branches of the family, Khoikhoi of Namibia and South Africa , and Tshu–Khwe of Botswana and Zimbabwe .
Khoisan was proposed as one of the four families of African languages in Joseph Greenberg's classification (1949–1954, revised in 1963). However, linguists who study Khoisan languages reject their unity, and the name "Khoisan" is used by them as a term of convenience without any implication of linguistic validity, much as "Papuan" and "Australian" are.
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Khoisan (/ ˈ k ɔɪ s ɑː n / KOY-sahn) or Khoe-Sān (pronounced [kxʰoesaːn]) is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen and the Sān peoples.
These huts, called haru oms in the Nama language, are made of reed mats woven neatly into a beehive shape. It is a dwelling house for all seasons– it is cool and well ventilated in summer, it is naturally insulated by reed carpets in winter, and protected from the rain by the porous stems which swell with water.
Khoekhoe (/ ˈ k ɔɪ k ɔɪ / KOY-koy; Khoekhoegowab, Khoekhoe pronunciation: [k͡xʰo̜͡ek͡xʰo̜͡egowab]), also known by the ethnic terms Nama (/ ˈ n ɑː m ə / NAH-mə; Namagowab), [3] Damara (ǂNūkhoegowab), or Nama/Damara [4] [5] and formerly as Hottentot, [b] is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that make heavy use of click consonants and therefore ...
Khwe is a member of the Khoe branch of the larger Khoe-Kwadi language family.. In 2000, the meeting of the Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in South Africa (WIMSA) produced the Penduka Declaration on the Standardisation of Ju and Khoe Languages, [2] which recommends Khwe be classified as part of the Central Khoe-San family, a cluster language comprising Khwe, ǁAni and Buga.
However, there is an additional correspondance: the Kwadi uvular affricate and fricative correspond to both lateral and alveolar clicks in Proto-Khoe, similar to the fifth click series in Proto-Kxʼa, and Fehn & Rocha (2023) hypothesize that a similar development took place in the Khoe–Kwadi languages. Thus Proto-Khoe–Kwadi may have had 5 ...