khoisan in English

noun

1

a collective term for the Khoikhoi (Hottentot) and San (Bushmen) peoples of southern Africa.

In southern Africa, the Khoisan were pushed all the way to the southern tip of the continent.

2

a language family of southern Africa, including the languages of the Khoikhoi and San, notable for the use of clicks as consonants.

Bantu, Khoisan , and Indo-European languages are spoken in Botswana.

adjective

1

relating to the Khoisan or their languages.

Members of the Khoisan language groups are the oldest surviving inhabitants of the land, but only a few are left in South Africa today - and they are located in the western sections.

Use "khoisan" in a sentence

1. Afrikaans borrows from other languages such as Bantu, Malay, Khoisan, Portuguese, and South African English

2. Khoisan-speaking people were decimated by European Colonialists, their lands stolen and cultures suppressed

3. "It is important to remember that the Khoisan people were the most brutalized by Colonialists who tried to make them

4. Bushman languages, loose grouping of languages that confusingly have been considered to be a separate group within the Khoisan languages

5. The Afrikaner is a very old breed of cattle breed that was first herded and kept by the Khoisan in South Africa from around the 15th century

6. In South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswanan, and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured (Kleurlinge in Afrikaans) is used to refer to people of mixed European and Khoisan or Bantu ancestry.

7. Australoid 0.40% Austronesian - Caucasian 22.26% Archaic_Human - East_African - East_Siberian - European_Early_Farmers 27.21% Khoisan - Melano_Polynesian 0.26% Archaic_African - Near_East 0.16% North_African 0.90% Paleo_Siberian - African_Pygmy 0.09% South_East_Asian - Subsaharian - Tungus-Altaic - European_Hunters_Gatherers 36.92% DLP K23b 4

8. People of Angola Ethnic and linguistic composition Apart from a few Europeans and isolated bands of Northern Khoisan speakers such as the !Kung (a San group) in the remote southeast, all Angolans speak Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo language family, which …

9. Angola - Angola - People: Apart from a few Europeans and isolated bands of Northern Khoisan speakers such as the !Kung (a San group) in the remote southeast, all Angolans speak Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo language family, which dominates western, central, and southern Africa

10. In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured refers to an heterogeneous ethnic group who possess ancestry from Europe, various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa, as well as peoples of West Africa, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaya, India, Mozambique, Mauritius, and Saint Helena.