Khoisan in a sentence

Relaying these concerns to the South African government in his consultancy work, Bredekamp insisted that all claims for recognition as Khoisan traditional leaders be thoroughly vetted.

Khoisan activists hand over a memorandum requesting a meeting with Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masaulle and Minister of Police Bheki Cele.

A dialect cluster of Nǃaqriaxe, (Eastern) ǂHoan, and Sasi) ** ǃKung (also ǃXun or Ju, formerly Northern Khoisan) is a dialect cluster.

Anthony Traill at first accepted Khoisan (Traill 1986), but by 1998 concluded that it could not be demonstrated with current data and methods, rejecting it as based on a single typological criterion: the presence of clicks.

Between three and six thousand years ago, they were joined by Cushitic -speaking people who came from the north, into whom the Khoisan peoples were slowly absorbed.

Click genesis and click loss Clicks are often portrayed as a primordial feature of human language, a romantic reflection of the primordial lifestyle imagined of the speakers of Khoisan languages.

Consequently, the languages with the greatest numbers of consonants in the world are Khoisan.

Damin is an invented ritual language, and has nothing to do with Khoisan.

E.O.J. Westphal is known for his early rejection of the Khoisan language family ( Starostin 2003).

For the most part, the Southern African Khoisan languages only utilize root -initial clicks.

However, the Khoisan languages are poorly attested, and it is quite possible that, as they become better described, more click releases will be found.

In New Perspectives on the Study of Khoisan, edited by Rainer Vossen, 47-65.

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.

Khoisan immigration - the Nama and Damara Until about 2,000 years ago the original hunters and gatherers of the San people were the only inhabitants in Namibia.

Most of Southern Africa was occupied by pygmy peoples and Khoisan who engaged in hunting and gathering.

Now, apart from Khoisan, it is generally accepted by African specialists and has been used as a basis for further work by other scholars.

Originally inhabited by Khoisan peoples, the region was affected by the Bantu expansion of the thirteenth century.

Other "click languages" hatnote Not all languages using clicks as phonemes are considered Khoisan.

Settlements of Bantu -speaking peoples, who were iron -using agriculturists and herdsmen, were already present south of the Limpopo River by the 4th or 5th century displacing and absorbing the original Khoisan speakers.

Several Khoisan languages have limited numbers or distributions of pulmonic velar consonants.