| 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 //. |