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	The Khoisan Language Family
		The Khoisan language family is the smallest of the languages families of Africa.
		Many of the Khoisan languages have five vowels /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/, /u/ which can be produced with additional features, such as nasalization, pharyngealization, and different voice qualities such as breathy and creaky voice, sometimes resulting in up to 40 different vowels.
		The Khoisan languages differ in the number of such combinations from a low of 20 in Nama to a high of 83 in Kxoe.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/september/khoisan.html (1016 words)

	Khoisan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Khoisan people were the original inhabitants of much of southern Africa before the southward Bantu migrations—coming down the east and west coasts of Africa—and later European colonization.
		Khoisans thus actually represent the most archaic human group that was largely isolated from the rest of mankind for tens of thousands of years.
		Physically the Khoisan, with their short frames (149-163 cm/4'9-5'4; Coon 1965), copper brown skin, tightly coiled "peppercorn" hair, high cheekbones, and epicanthic eye folds are quite distinct from the darker-skinned peoples who constitute the majority of Africa's population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khoisan (801 words)

	Khoisan Will Not Vote: Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Khoisan people should not participate in the June 2 elections unless their existence was publicly recognised by the government and their indigenous heritage and rights respected, the Khoisan Representative Council has decided.
		Khoisan communities such as the Namaqua, Griqua, Outeniqua, Goringhaiqua, Koranna and San had been "forcefully reclassified as coloured" by the previous government, and this had never been addressed by the new government.
		With "painful regret and shock", the Khoisan realised that their interests and concerns had never been addressed by anyone at the Kempton Park constitutional talks.
	www.anc.org.za /elections/news/apr/en042102.html (199 words)

	Khoisan Tea - Quality as Timeless as the Art of Tea
		There is a wild, unspoiled and rugged area at the southernmost tip of Africa, only 200kms north of Cape Town, where the vegetation is so unique and rare that it has been identified as one of only eight plant kingdoms in the world.
		Khoisan Tea’s Honeybush Tea is treated in much the same way.
		Khoisan Tea ensures that only the highest quality, most flavoursome and aromatic teas are selected for the customer.
	www.khoisantea.com /farm.html (379 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Laying The Past To Rest -- April 22, 2002/Vol. 159 No. 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Baartman was born in 1789 into the Griqua tribe of the eastern Cape, a subgroup of the Khoisan people who are now thought to be the first aboriginal inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa.
		The National Khoisan Consultative Conference, a tribal representative body, has been pressing for Baartman's return since 1995, even though a change in French law was needed for this to happen.
		Khoisan leaders enlisted the help of former President Nelson Mandela and South Africa's most renowned paleoanthropologist, Phillip Tobias, to plead their case.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,230460,00.html (849 words)

	SAVE THE SAN
		In: New perspectives on the study of Khoisan, pp 139-147.
		In: Language, identity and conceptualization among the Khoisan, pp 117-136.
		In: The proceedings of the Khoisan identities and cultural heritage conference, held at the South African Museum, Cape Town, 12-16 July 1997, pp 225-231.
	www.khoisanpeoples.org /indepth/san-libary.htm (1820 words)

	AllRefer.com - African languages : Khoisan (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		The Khoisan, or Click, linguistic family is made up of three branches: the Khoisan languages of the San (Bushmen) and Khoikhoi, spoken in various parts of sub-Saharan Africa; Sandawe, a language found in E Africa; and Hatsa (Hadzane or Hadzapi), also spoken in E Africa.
		Although all the Khoisan languages use click sounds, Sandawe and Hatsa are unlike the other Khoisan tongues and are not related to each other.
		All of the Khoisan languages appear to use tones to distinguish meanings, and the Khoikhoi languages and some of the San languages inflect the noun to show case, number, and gender.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Africanlng-khoisan.html (293 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| 'Bushmen' marginalised in South Africa
		Khoisan, previously called Hottentots and Bushmen, were dispossessed by the colonialists and oppressed by the apartheid regime, and now they say they are being marginalised in South Africa.
		Since the end of apartheid the Khoisan have gained limited recognition and projects have been set-up to preserve indigenous culture.
		Delegates at the conference wanted the Khoisan identity to be recognised in the constitution and for their languages to be taught in schools.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1256210.stm (278 words)

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		BISHO -- An organisation which represents the interests of the Khoisan community in the Eastern Cape has come out strongly against the removal of the newly-discovered 2000-year-old mummy found in the Kouga Mountains.
		Dr Johan Binneman of the Albany Museum discovered the mummy in the Kouga Mountains west of Port Elizabeth and plans to transport it to the museum.
		He said people often became involved in a "tug of war" to use such remains as a tourist attraction forgetting that the discovery should be handled in a dignified and sensitive way.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1999/05/05/easterncape/khoisan.htm (271 words)

	ADDRESS BY DEPUTY PRESIDENT ZUMA TO THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE NATIONAL KHOISAN CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE
		Indeed, the role that the Khoisan people have played in the history of this country cannot be underestimated.
		Khoisan people should also take the initiative collectively to enter into discussion with museums, to evaluate their holdings of Khoisan skeletons found accidentally during construction work, or those that have been excavated in the course of archaeological research.
		Khoisan representatives agreed at a meeting in Kimberley in December last year that the legacy of the Khoisan would be best celebrated through the establishment of a National Khoisan Heritage Route.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/zuma/2001/jz0329.htm (2075 words)

	HistoryWiz: The Khoisan
		The Khoisan is a general term to describe the hunter-gatherers, also called 'bushmen' or the San, who were the earliest inhabitants of Africa.
		The Khoisan were driven to remote mountainous and desert lands which were not attractive to the white settlers.
		Between disease, the killing squads and the inhospitable conditions in the new lands, the numbers of the Khoisan dwindled.
	www.historywiz.com /khoisan.htm (385 words)

	Evolution of Human Languages
		Rainer Vossen (University of Frankfurt) gave a detailed introductory speech on Khoisan, elucidating some of the family's most intricate phonological and morphological details for everybody present, particularly those who were not too familiar with the peculiarities of Khoisan.
		He demonstrated the Khoisan computer database system, structured as a two-level hierarchy (from Proto-Khoisan to daughter branches), gave his results of calculating preliminary Khoisan glottochronology, and gave a brief comparison of the reliability and completeness of the data sources he used.
		The participants agreed upon the main problems facing Khoisan historical linguistics, such as incompleteness and frequent inadequacy of linguistic data, and produced several hypotheses about the origination of the click system.
	ehl.santafe.edu /ehlmeet2.htm (452 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Chris McGreal: Remains of 'Hottentot Venus' finally returned to her homeland
		It is a question to which the Khoisan - the first people to inhabit the southern tip of Africa - have a ready answer, and the return of Baartman's remains is giving them the opportunity to make it heard.
		After her remains were pulled from public display at the Musé de L'Homme 26 years ago, they were consigned to a shelf in a back room and largely forgotten until interest in her fate revived with the end of apartheid in South Africa and the Khoisan peoples attempts to reassert their identity.
		To claim their place at the head of the queue, growing numbers of people in the Cape are identifying themselves as "Khoisan".
	education.guardian.co.uk /museums/comment/0,11727,660396,00.html (1396 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Return of 'Hottentot Venus' unites Bushmen
		The Khoisan people are widely believed to be the original inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa.
		The joy around the celebrations to mark the return of Baartman's remains was however, tempered by accusations from some in the Khoisan community that the national and provincial governments are hijacking the event for political gain.
		Baartman was born in 1789 into the Khoisan tribe of hunter-gatherers who lived in the southernmost tip of Africa and were also known as "Hottentots".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/1971103.stm (701 words)

	Khoisan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Khoisan languages compose the smallest phylum of African languages.
		The only widespread Khoisan language is Nama, with a quarter of a million speakers; Sandawe is second in number with about 40,000, some monolingual; and the Ju language cluster has some 30,000 speakers total.
		The Bantu languages adopted the use of clicks from neighboring Khoisan populations, often through intermarriage, while the Dahalo are thought to have retained clicks from an earlier Khoisan-like language when they shifted to speaking a Cushitic language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khoisan_languages (438 words)

	Kalahari bushmen. African bushman, khoisan, san information
		Many of these beliefs can be rooted in ignorance, prejudice and inaccurate observations by early settlers and explorers while many other misconceptions, although having some small underlying element of truth, are fundamentally misleading and inaccurate.
		The Bushmen, often referred to as the San or the generic term Khoisan, are the remnants of Africa's oldest cultural group, genetically the closest surviving people to the original Homo-Sapien core from which the Negro emerged.
		Khoisan - The term most applied by academia today, referring to the Bushman/Khoi gene pool or, as is often stated, applying to all those people sharing related languages that use the Click Consonants.
	www.kalahari-san.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /index.htm (1454 words)

	AFRICAN FIRST PEOPLES: THE BUSHWO/MEN
		The San peoples of South Africa and neighbouring Botswana, who live in the Kalahari, are part of the Khoisan group and are related to the Khoi.
		The Khoikhoi ("people people" or "real people") or Khoi are a division of the Khoisan ethnic group of south-western Africa, closely related to the Bushmen (San).
		Khoisan Tribal, Social and Language Grouping The primary Bushman linguistic divisions are referred to as the Northern, Central and Southern Groups.
	www.khoisanpeoples.org /peoples (829 words)

	South Africa - Khoisan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Khoisan languages, characterized by "click" sounds not found elsewhere in Africa, have almost disappeared from South Africa in the 1990s.
		All remaining Khoisan speakers are believed to be San, living in the Kalahari Desert region in the Northern Cape and North-West Province.
		The government has no accurate count of their numbers, although it is generally believed that larger numbers of San live in Botswana and Namibia.
	countrystudies.us /south-africa/51.htm (346 words)

	Khoisan Tea - Quality as Timeless as the Art of Tea
		Established in 1997, Khoisan Tea (Pty) Ltd is a leading South African producer and exporter of Rooibos Tea, a naturally sweet and woodsy herbal "red-bush" tea.
		Khoisan Tea has a capacity of 3000 tons per year and we export globally.
		We grow our own 100% organic Rooibos Tea on the Khoisan Farm just 200km north of Cape Town and pride ourselves on our pure wild harvest Honeybush Tea, while being one of the top organic Bourbon-style Vanilla exporters in the world.
	www.khoisantea.co.za (159 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Khoisan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In language and in physical type the Khoikhoi appear to be related to the San (Bushmen), i.e., they speak a variation of the Khoisan, or
		Return of Khoisan woman's remains closes a chapter in South Africa's painful history
		South Africa prepares repatriated remains of indigenous Khoisan woman for burial
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Khoisan (378 words)

	Khoisan - Khoesaan
		Manuscript referred to by Köhler in "Les langues khoisan" (Les langues dans le monde ancien et moderne, edited by Jean Perrot, 1981).
		Zu'hoasi: a Khoisan dialect of South West Africa/Namibia.
		In: New perspectives on the study of Khoisan, pp.
	www.african.gu.se /khsrefs.html (3220 words)

	Khoisan languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Khoisan languages (pejoratively often called Hottentott and Bushman languages) are spoken in Southern Africa by mostly small ethnic groups, partly having preserved a hunter-gatherer culture.
		Because all the Khoisan languages show clicks sounds as one of their major features, they are grouped together.
		At the University of Frankfurt am Main the person engaged in Khoisan linguistics is Prof.
	user.uni-frankfurt.de /~vajkonny/khoisan.html (117 words)

	Khoisan languages (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Khoisan languages comprise the smallest phylum of African languages.
		They are notable for the use of click consonants as phonemes, including the Kung-ekoka language, which has in excess of 50 click consonants and over 140 separate phonemes, and the !Xóõ language with its giant phoneme inventory and strident and pharyngealized sounds.
		Grammatically, the Khoisan languages are generally fairly isolating.
	khoisan-languages.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (335 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Nilo-Saharan & Khoisan
		You have reached the page for Khoisan and Nilo-Saharan languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		The Khoisan and Nilo-Saharan language families are both included on this page.
		The name Khoisan is composed of the San words for "San" and "Khoi." The Khoisan languages have distinctive "click" consonants, sometimes represented in writing by an exclamation point preceding the letter.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/nskxlh.htm (676 words)

	Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa - Cambridge University Press
		The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples, including the famous Bushmen or San 'hunters', the Khoekhoe 'herders' (in the past called 'Hottentots'), and the Damara, also a herding people.
		Most Khoisan live in the Kalahari desert and surrounding areas of Botswana and Namibia.
		This is the first book on the Khoisan as a whole since the publication in 1930 of The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa, by Isaac Schapera, doyen of southern African studies.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521411882 (388 words)

	Hottentots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Unlike Bantu groups such as the Zulu, the Khoisan-speaking peoples are small of stature and have a yellow-tan complexion (perhaps they are related to the huge Malay ethnic group that spread throughout the Southern Hemisphere in ancient times).
		While the Khoikhoi were agriculturalists with concepts of private property, and lived along the coast (desirable land to European settlers), the Khoisan were hunter-gatherers able to eke out existence in barren land, such as the Kalahari desert.
		The European audiences in London and Paris found her steatopygia (protruding buttocks) particularly fascinating, as it 'proved' current medical/anthropological ideas about the sexual lasciviousness and animality of African women.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/hotten.htm (326 words)

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