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name
The group of languages associated with the Khoisan including the Khoi, Kx'a and Tuu families, sometimes to the inclusion of the Hadza and Sandawe language isolates of Tanzania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A member of the group of non-Bantu Southern African indigenous people: the Khoi or San people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a family of languages spoken in southern Africa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Khoisan language
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Broader terms: natural language, tongue
Narrower terms: Khoikhoin, Khoikhoi, Hottentot
History
From Khoi + San, from the pastoral Khoi tribe (formerly also called Hottentots) and the hunter-gatherer San (also known as Bushmen). Coined by Isaac Schapera in 1930, in linguistic usage since the 1950s (following Joseph Greenberg, Studies in African Linguistic Classification, 1955).
Across languages
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