Central Khoisan languages
Also known as: Khoe languages, Khoi languages
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classification
- In Khoisan languages: Classification of the Khoisan languages
…three effectively unrelated groups: Northern, Central, and Southern. Sandawe of Tanzania has a distant relationship to the Central group, but the place of Hadza even in relation to Sandawe has always been unclear; and the status of Kwadi, an extinct language of Namibe (formerly Moçâmedes) in southwestern Angola, remains uncertain.…
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work of Bleek
- In Wilhelm Bleek
…North African origin of the Khoe language (he referred to the language as “Hottentot”—the term fashioned by South Africa’s Dutch settlers—which is now considered to be pejorative). In about 1855 he went to Natal to study the language and customs of the Xhosa. Before going to Cape Town, he wrote…
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