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lsr Root  0= AFRICA geosector  08= KHOISANIC phylozone
id name
08= KHOISANIC phylozone
list descendants
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
geoentityID geoentityName
af•c•AO Angola | af•s•BW Botswana | af•s•NA Namibia | af•s•ZA South Africa | af•e•ZM Zambia
2 subdivisions
1* 08-A Nama + Hainl’Um
2* 08-B Kwadi

2025-04-24 05:08:39 Europe/Berlin.

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