Languages khoïsan

The languages khoïsan or languages khoï are spoken in Southern Africa, mainly with the Botswana, in Namibia, in the province of the Cape-of-North of South Africa, in southernmost Angola. The people Khoïkhoï and Bochiman spoke about the languages khoïsan before European colonization, and certain people remained of hunting and the gathering in the desert Kalahari. Currently the greatest khoïsan group is the Nama, which are among the greatest ethnos groups of Namibia. The other languages khoïsan are rather threatened, and some disappeared without being studied. Two spoken languages with the Kenya and in Tanzania, the Hadza and the Sandawé, are of stock khoïsan, but are distant on the plans linguistics and geographical from the remainder of the group.

The languages khoïsan became famous because of the particular consonants called click S. the sounds of this kind are, of course, very widespread in the human vocal repertory, but their use as Phonème S seems limited to the languages of this family and those having been subject to their influence, like the Xhosa and the Zoulou. The language kung-ekoka does not employ less than 50 phonemes clicks out of 140 distinct phonemes.

On the morpho-syntactic level, the languages khoïsan are rather insulating. The suffixes are often employed, but the direction of a sentence depends more about the words Inflection S.

List and classification

See the list in this other article.

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