Lugha za Khoisan

Lugha za Khoisan ni lugha za Afrika ambazo ni maalumu kwa fonimu zake nyingi sana (hadi 141), kuliko lugha nyingine zote duniani.

Zimeenea hasa Kusini mwa Afrika, lakini zinatumika pia katika wilaya ya Chemba, mkoa wa Dodoma, Tanzania ya kati.

Hii inaonyesha kwamba kabla ya uenezi wa makabila ya Kibantu, lugha hizo zilitawala barani Afrika kusini kwa ikweta.

Baadhi ya lugha hizo zimeshakufa na nyingine ziko hatarini. Karibu zote hazina maandishi.

Ile inayotumiwa na watu wengi zaidi (250,000 hivi) inaitwa Khoekhoe ("Nàmá") na inapatikana nchini Namibia. Inafuatwa na Kisandawe nchini Tanzania (40,000-80,000).

Tanbihi

Marejeo

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Ehret, Christopher. 1986. "Proposals on Khoisan Reconstruction." In African Hunter-Gatherers (International Symposium), edited by Franz Rottland & Rainer Vossen, 105-130. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, special issue 7.1. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
Ehret, Christopher. 2003. "Toward reconstructing Proto-South Khoisan." In Mother Tongue 8.
Greenberg, Joseph H. 1955. Studies in African Linguistic Classification. New Haven: Compass Publishing Company. (Reprints, with minor corrections, a series of eight articles published in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology from 1949 to 1954.)
Greenberg, Joseph H. 1963. The Languages of Africa. (Heavily revised version of Greenberg 1955.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (From the same publisher: second, revised edition, 1966; third edition, 1970. All three editions simultaneously published at The Hague by Mouton Publishers)
Güldemann, Tom and Rainer Vossen. 2000. "Khoisan." In African Languages: An Introduction, edited by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse, 99-122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hastings, Rachel. 2001. "Evidence for the Genetic Unity of Southern Khoesan." In Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 18, 225-245.
Honken, Henry. 1988. "Phonetic Correspondences among Khoisan Affricates." In New Perspectives on the Study of Khoisan, edited by Rainer Vossen, 47-65. Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung 7. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1988.
Honken, Henry. 1998. "Types of sound correspondence patterns in Khoisan languages." In Language, Identity and Conceptualization among the Khoisan, edited by Mathias Schladt, 171-193. Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung/Research in Khoisan studies 15. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
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Sands, Bonny. 1998. "Comparison and Classification of Khoisan languages." In Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa, edited by Ian Maddieson and Thomas J. Hinnebusch, 75-85. Trenton: Africa World Press.
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Viungo vya nje
Map showing distribution of San languages and pronunciation of "clicks" at the Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA)
"Khoesan languages"  at Web Resources for African Languages  by Jouni Filip Maho

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