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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Khoisan languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The only widespread Khoisan language is Nama, with a quarter million speakers; Sandawe is second in number with about 40,000, some monolingual; and the Ju language cluster has some 30,000 speakers total.
Many of the other languages are becoming increasingly rare or moribund, and several are known to have become extinct.
Khoisan languages are most famous for the use of click consonants as phonemes.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Khoisan_languages   (381 words)

  
 Xhosa language resources
List of Khoisan languages for classification.) Xhosa is a Bantu language of South Africa ; Dahalo is a Cushitic language of Kenya ; Hadza and Sandawe are spoken in Tanzania ; and Damin was an initiation jargon...
Xhosa is the southernmost Bantu language in Africa.
Xhosa Xhosa is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Southern Africa.
www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Xhosa.html   (1354 words)

  
 List of languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For a more structured list, see Language families and languages, ISO 639 or List of languages by total speakers.
Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishs about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.
Only some major languages are listed here, see List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more
www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_languages.html   (136 words)

  
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www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_languages.html   (178 words)

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