Linguasphere-Register
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lsr Root ▶ 0= AFRICA geosector ▶ 08= KHOISANIC phylozone
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id name |
08= KHOISANIC phylozone |
list descendants |
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position |
01.09 |
nodeType |
innernode |
also |
Central Khoisan; Khoisanic |
keyWords |
Wider Khoisan |
pdf |
OL-SITE 1999-2000 MASTER ONE Sectors 0-Zones 05-09.pdf |
lsrType |
zone |
grouping |
phylo |
scale |
100.000 – 1.000.000 |
lsrCountry |
Angola; Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Zambia |
notes |
covers the "Central Khoisan" grouping (part of the "wider Khoisan" hypothesis); comprising 2 sets of languages (= 14 outer languages) spoken by herding or hunter-gatherer communities in Southwestern Africa, in and around the Kalahari desert: 08-A NAMA + HAINL'UM 08-B KWADI The symbols used conventionally to transcribe consonantal clicks in many language-names within zones 08= and 09= are recorded in column 3, but these symbols have been converted to Latin alphabetic characters for the spelling and indexing of reference-names (all names in column 2, and bold names in column 3) as follows: p'=bilabial click ʘ c'=dental click / t'= dento-alveolar click ǁ q'=retroflex click ! l'=lateral click //. |
statistics |
2 sets • 3 chains • 4 nets • 14 outerLanguages • 85 innerLanguages • 5 dialects • 89 leaves • 113 descendants • 7 with wikidataLinks • 7 with iso639Links • 7 with ethnologueLinks • 17 with glottologLinks |