Khoisan language
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Khoisan-Sprachen — (hellbraun dargestellt) neben den anderen Sprachfamilien der Welt Verbreitungsgebiet der Khoisan Sprachen (gelb) Die Khoisan Sprachen werden im … Deutsch Wikipedia
Khoisan languages — Group of more than 20 languages presently spoken by perhaps several hundred thousand Khoekhoe and San peoples of southern Africa. A number of Khoisan languages are now either extinct or spoken by very few people. Their most distinctive linguistic … Universalium
Khoisan languages — Infobox Language family name=Khoisan region=Kalahari Desert familycolor=Khoisan family=Khoisan (term of convenience) child1=Kwadi Khoe child2=Juu ǂHoan child3=Tuu child4=Sandawe child5=Hadza iso2=khi The Khoisan languages (also Khoesaan… … Wikipedia
Khoisan — Hottentot Hot ten*tot, n. [D. Hottentot; so called from hot and tot, two syllables of frequent occurrence in their language. Wedgwood.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of a degraded [1913 Webster] 2. The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Khoisan — noun a family of languages spoken in southern Africa • Syn: ↑Khoisan language • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue • Hyponyms: ↑Khoikhoin, ↑Khoikhoi, ↑Hottentot … Useful english dictionary
Khoisan — [koi′sän΄] n. a family of S African languages including Nama, Bushman, and Kung: an important phonological characteristic of these languages is the presence of a group of consonants known as clicks (see CLICK, n. 3) adj. designating or of this… … English World dictionary
Sandawe language — language name=Sandawe familycolor=Khoisan fam1=Khoe Sandawe (tentative) states=Tanzania region=Rift Valley speakers=c. 40,000 iso2=sad iso3=sadSandawe or Sandawi is a tonal language spoken by about 40,000 Sandawe people in the Dodoma region of… … Wikipedia
Hadza language — language familycolor=Isolate name=Hadza region=Lake Eyasi, Tanzania speakers=975 (2005) iso3=htsHadza is a language isolate spoken by fewer than a thousand people along the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. Despite the small number of speakers,… … Wikipedia
ǃKung language — language name=ǃKung nativename=ǃXũũ states=Namibia, Angola region=Okavango and Ovamboland Territory speakers=15,000 familycolor=Khoisan fam1=Juu iso2=khi lc1=knw|ld1=Kung Ekoka language lc2=oun|ld2=ǃOǃung language lc3=mwj|ld3=Maligo languageǃKung … Wikipedia
Khoïsan — Langues khoïsan Répartition des langues khoïsan Les langues khoïsan ou langues khoï sont parlées en Afrique australe, principalement au Botswana, en Namibie, dans la province du Cap du Nord d Afrique du Sud, en Angola méridional. Les peuples… … Wikipédia en Français
