The Khoe (/ˈkweɪ/ KWAY) languages are the largest of the non-Bantu language families indigenous to Southern Africa. They were once considered to be a...
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The Khoe–Kwadi languages are a family consisting of the Khoe languages of southern Africa and the poorly attested extinct Kwadi language of Angola. The...
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Standardisation of Ju and Khoe Languages, which recommends Khwe be classified as part of the Central Khoe-San family, a cluster language comprising Khwe, ǁAni...
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their proximity. The Khoe family is both the most numerous and diverse family of Khoisan languages, with seven living languages and over a quarter million...
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Nharo, is a Khoe language spoken in Ghanzi District of Botswana and in eastern Namibia. It is one of the most-spoken of the Tshu–Khwe languages. Naro is...
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Haiǁom and the Kalahari Khoe languages They are distinct enough that they might be considered two or three distinct languages.[citation needed] Eini (extinct)...
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the western Khoe languages under the influence of Kxʼa languages in Botswana, and other elements that were lost in the eastern Khoe languages. The Kwadi...
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Khoemana (redirect from Xiri language)
Korana, ǃOra, or Griqua, is a moribund Khoe language of South Africa. "Khoemana" (from khoe 'person' + mana 'language') is more commonly known as either Korana...
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Tshwa or Tshuwau, also known as Kua and Hiechware, is an East Kalahari Khoe dialect cluster spoken by several thousand people in Botswana and Zimbabwe...
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Shua /ˈʃuːə/ SHOO-ə, or Shwakhwe, is a Khoe language (Central Khoisan) of Botswana. It is spoken in central Botswana (in Nata and its surroundings), and...
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than the modern Khoe languages are. Click language Hadza language Khoisan languages Sandawe at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) "Sandawe language". Omniglot. Retrieved...
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some Khoe and Tuu languages (ǁxóni~kx'uni~kx'uri) has been suggested as deriving from a 'pre-Tuu/pre-Khoe substrate'. The Tuu languages are not demonstrably...
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explanation for language isolates is that they developed in isolation from other languages. This explanation mostly applies to sign languages that have arisen...
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Dual (grammatical number) (category Articles with text in Slavic languages)
Sami languages Other natural languages Alutor Dogrib (only in the first person) Hopi (nouns) Hmong Inuktitut Khamti Khoe languages Komo language Koryak...
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Khoisan (redirect from Khoe-San people)
or Khoe-Sān (pronounced [kxʰoesaːn]), is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining...
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up khoe, khoẻ, or khỏe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Khoe may be: Khoe languages the Khoe language the Khoekhoe people the Khoekhoe language Kho...
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Click consonant (redirect from Click languages)
share the distribution of clicks in these languages. Most languages of the Khoesan families (Tuu, Kxʼa and Khoe) have four click types: { ǀ ǁ ǃ ǂ } or variants...
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been suspected for a decade. Along with the Tuu languages and Khoe languages, they are one of three language families indigenous to southern Africa, which...
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language may share a common ancestor with the Khoe languages of southern Africa. It has clicks and is unrelated to the neighbouring Bantu languages,...
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speak Tshwa (a Khoe language) and 0.1% speak !Xóõ, a Tuu language (both non-Bantu). English is spoken by 2.8% as their first language, and a small number...
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/ˈɡɑːnə/ GAH-nə in English, and also spelled ǁGana, Gxana, Dxana, Xgana) is a Khoe dialect cluster of Botswana. It is closely related to Naro, and includes...
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ǂAakhoe dialect (redirect from Hai.n//um language)
language in the northern part of Namibia" (Widlock, n.d.). ǂAkhoe especially is intermediate between the Khoekhoe and Kalahari branches of the Khoe language...
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languages are spoken, or historically have been spoken, in Zimbabwe. Since the adoption of its 2013 Constitution, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages,...
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Ts'èxa) is a critically endangered African language that belongs to the Kalahari Khoe branch of the Khoe-Kwadi language family. The Tsʼixa speech community consists...
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languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts of the Comoros. Khoe–Kwadi languages are spoken mostly in Namibia and Botswana. Indo-European languages,...
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1820, co-existing with Afrikaans and various African languages such as the Khoe and Bantu languages. Today, about nine percent of the South African population...
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Demographics of Tanzania (section Languages)
The Sandawe people speak a language that may be related to the Khoe languages of Botswana and Namibia, while the language of the Hadzabe people, although...
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South Africa (category Articles with text in Bantu languages)
commonly spoken language outside of the household, after Zulu. Other languages are spoken, or were widely used previously, including Fanagalo, Khoe, Lobedu,...
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Tanzania (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
African Languages and Literatures at the University of Dar es Salaam. The Sandawe people speak a language that may be related to the Khoe languages of Botswana...
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