KHOISAN

Meaning of KHOISAN in English

Pronunciation: ' ko ̇ i- ˌ sän, - ' sän

Function: noun

Etymology: Khoi khoi + San

Date: 1930

1 : a group of African peoples speaking Khoisan languages

2 : a family of African languages comprising principally Khoikhoi and the Bushman languages

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

KHOISAN — noun Etymology: Khoikhoi + San Date: 1930 a group of African peoples speaking ~ languages, a family of African languages …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
KHOISAN — ˈkȯiˌsän noun ( -s ) Usage: usually capitalized 1. : a group of African peoples speaking Khoisan languages 2. : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
KHOISAN — /koy"sahn/ , n. 1. a family of languages found chiefly in southern Africa and including the languages of the San …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
KHOISAN — noun Etymology: Khoi khoi + San Date: 1930 1. : a group of African peoples speaking Khoisan languages 2. : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
KHOISAN — [ 'kɔɪsα:n ] ■ noun 1》 [usu. treated as plural ] a collective term for the Khoikhoi and San peoples …
Concise Oxford English vocab
KHOISAN — [Khoi.san] n [Khoikhoi + San] (1930) 1: a group of African peoples speaking Khoisan languages 2: a family of African …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
KHOISAN — Khoisan BrE AmE ˌkɔɪ ˈsɑːn -ˈsæn
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
KHOISAN — Койсанские народы
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
KHOISAN LANGUAGES — Group of more than 20 languages presently spoken by perhaps several hundred thousand Khoekhoe and San peoples of southern Africa. …
Английский словарь Британика
KHOISAN LANGUAGES
Britannica English vocabulary
KHOISAN LANGUAGES — Group of more than 20 languages presently spoken by perhaps several hundred thousand Khoekhoe and San peoples of southern Africa. …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
KUNG — I. noun (plural ~) Date: 1926 a member of a people of southern Africa, the Khoisan language of the !~ …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
KHOIKHOI — noun (plural ~) Date: 1791 a member of any of a group of Khoisan-speaking pastoral peoples of southern Africa, the …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BUSHMAN — noun Date: 1785 1. capitalized \modification of obsolete Afrikaans boschjesman, from boschje (diminutive of bosch forest) + Afrikaans man] a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SOUTH AFRICA, REPUBLIC OF — formerly Union of South Africa Southernmost country on the African continent. The kingdom of Lesotho lies within its boundaries. Area: …
Английский словарь Британика
NGUNI — Cluster of related ethnic groups living in South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe, including the Xhosa , Zulu , Swazi , …
Английский словарь Британика
LANGUAGE — I System of conventional spoken or written symbols used by people in a shared culture to communicate with each other. …
Английский словарь Британика
KHOEKHOE — or Khoikhoi formerly Hottentot (pejorative) Group of peoples, speaking closely related Khoisan languages , who were among the first indigenous …
Английский словарь Британика
GREENBERG, JOSEPH H(AROLD) — born May 28, 1915, New York, N.Y., U.S. died May 7, 2001, Stanford, Calif. U.S. anthropologist and linguist. He received …
Английский словарь Британика
DAMARALAND — Historical region, north-central Namibia. Occupied by the Herero and Khoisan people, who subjugated the original Bergdama people there, it extends …
Английский словарь Британика
CLICK — In phonetics, a suction sound made in the mouth. Click sounds occur in various African languages and are often used …
Английский словарь Британика
AFRIKAANS LANGUAGE — It was developed from 17th-century Dutch by descendants of European settlers, indigenous {{link=Khoisan languages">Khoisan -speaking peoples, and African and Asian …
Английский словарь Британика
KHOIKHOI — noun ( plural Khoikhoi ) Date: 1791 1. : a member of any of a group of Khoisan-speaking pastoral peoples …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HOTTENTOT — [Hot.ten.tot] n [Afrik] (1677) 1: a member of any of a group of Khoisan-speaking pastoral peoples of southern Africa 2: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SOUTHERN AFRICA, HISTORY OF
Britannica English vocabulary
LANGUAGE — a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group …
Britannica English vocabulary
SAN LANGUAGES — also called Bushman, Khoisan languages spoken by San tribesmen in southern Africa. The San languages are often divided by scholars …
Britannica English vocabulary
KHOIKHOIN LANGUAGES — also called Hottentot, group of Khoisan languages most closely related to the Central San languages, with which they are placed …
Britannica English vocabulary
CAPE FRONTIER WARS — also called Kaffir, or Kafir, Wars (17791879), 100 years of intermittent warfare between the Cape colonists and the Xhosa agricultural …
Britannica English vocabulary
BOTSWANA, FLAG OF
Britannica English vocabulary
AFRICAN LANGUAGES — languages indigenous to Africa that belong to the Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Khoisan, and Afro-Asiatic language families. The number of African languages …
Britannica English vocabulary
CLICK — n. In phonetics, a suction sound made in the mouth. Click sounds occur in various African languages and are often …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

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