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The Khoisan languages ( / ˈkɔɪsɑːn / KOY-sahn; also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg. [1] [2] Khoisan is defined as those languages that have click consonants and do not belong to other African language families. For much of the 20th century, they were thought ...
Three languages in East Africa use clicks: Sandawe and Hadza of Tanzania, and Dahalo, an endangered South Cushitic language of Kenya that has clicks in only a few dozen words. It is thought the latter may remain from an episode of language shift .
The Khoekhoe / ˈ k ɔɪ k ɔɪ / KOY-koy language (Khoekhoegowab, Khoekhoe pronunciation: [k͡xʰo̜͡ek͡xʰo̜͡egowab]), also known by the ethnic terms Nama (Namagowab) / ˈ n ɑː m ə / NAH-mə, Damara (ǂNūkhoegowab), or Nama/Damara and formerly as Hottentot, is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that make heavy use of click consonants and therefore were ...
Xhosa ( / ˈkɔːsə / KAW-sə, / ˈkoʊsə / KOH-sə; [5] [6] [7] Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰóːsa] ), formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. [8]
SA Sign Language. 0.5%. At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all ...
Juǀʼhoan is the only variety of ǃKung to be written. Three orthographies have been used over the past half century, two based on pipe letters for clicks and one using only the basic Latin alphabet. In the 1960s, the South African Department of Education set about establishing official orthographies for the languages of Southwest Africa ...
Khoisan / ˈkɔɪsɑːn / 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 (formerly "Hottentots") and the Sān peoples (also called "Bushmen"). Khoisan populations traditionally speak click languages and ...
The clicks of Xhosa, in the Lepsius alphabet of 1854. The ṅ is equivalent to ŋ . The pipe with the acute accent was soon replaced with ǂ . The click letters created by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1855 (right column), along with the corresponding Lepsius letters (center). By the early 19th century, the otherwise unneeded letters c x q were used ...