Khoekhoe language
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Khoekhoe or Khoikhoi, also known by the ethnic terms Nama, Damara, or Nama/Damara and formerly the pejorative term Hottentot, is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that
Nama man giving lessons on the Khoekhoe language
Khoekhoe
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Khoikhoi or Khoekhoe are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of Southern Africa. They are often grouped with the hunter-gatherer San peoples, the accepted term for the two peop
Khoekhoe language
…ethnic groups: Namakhoen, ǂNūkhoen, and Haiǁomkhoen. The Haiǁom, who had spoken a Juu language, later shifted to Khoekhoe. The name for the speakers, Khoekhoen, is from the word khoe ('person'), with reduplication and the suffix -n to indicate the general plural. Georg Friedrich Wreede was the first European…
A Khoekhoe man
Nomadic Khoekhoe dismantling their huts, by Samuel Daniell (1805)
Adam Kok, leader of the Griqua nation
Khoekua marksmen played a key role in the Cape Frontier Wars.