Khoe is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Khoe meaning
A certain group of African languages.
Using Khoe
- The main meaning on this page is: A certain group of African languages.
Context around Khoe
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Khoe
- In this selection, "khoe" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nama, main, family and san stand out and add context to how "khoe" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include khoe main the and main the khoe family is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "khoe" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with khoe
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Thus their language is variously said to be extinct or to have 18,000 speakers, to be Ju or to be Khoe. (22 words)
Khoe main The Khoe family is both the most numerous and diverse family of Khoisan languages, with seven living languages and over a quarter million speakers. (26 words)
Tuu main The Tuu family consists of two language clusters, which are related to each other at about the distance of Khoekhoe and Tshukhwe within Khoe. (26 words)
The groups were the Nama (Khoe-San from South Africa); the Mende (from Sierra Leone); the Gumuz (recent descendants of a hunter-gatherer group from Ethiopia); and the Amhara and Oromo (agriculturalists from eastern Africa). (35 words)
Khoe main The Khoe family is both the most numerous and diverse family of Khoisan languages, with seven living languages and over a quarter million speakers. (26 words)
Tuu main The Tuu family consists of two language clusters, which are related to each other at about the distance of Khoekhoe and Tshukhwe within Khoe. (26 words)
Example sentences (4)
Khoe main The Khoe family is both the most numerous and diverse family of Khoisan languages, with seven living languages and over a quarter million speakers.
The groups were the Nama (Khoe-San from South Africa); the Mende (from Sierra Leone); the Gumuz (recent descendants of a hunter-gatherer group from Ethiopia); and the Amhara and Oromo (agriculturalists from eastern Africa).
Thus their language is variously said to be extinct or to have 18,000 speakers, to be Ju or to be Khoe.
Tuu main The Tuu family consists of two language clusters, which are related to each other at about the distance of Khoekhoe and Tshukhwe within Khoe.