Southern Africa
The Khoisan pages An educational information resource Provided by the Future Perfect Corporation. There is much debate about the origins of the Khoikhoi-some scholars have suggested that they originated from Asia, some from north Africa.  Answer by Sean Lane. Confidence votes 64. The Khoisan are not one people, they are the Khoi and the San, Khoisan is a term used for the use of clicks the languages they use, both different languages but having influence on each other. The Khoi and the San are the people native to the Western Cape in  South Africa. Khoisan is a name that combines the two groups into  one category. The word can be translated to mean 'the real people' or 'men of men', meaning 'we people with domestic animals' as opposed to the Sonqua or Bushmen who had none. Khoesaan = Khoisan is a general term which linguists use for the click language of southern Africa. Physical anthropologists use it as a biological term to distinguish the aboriginal people of southern Africa from their black African farming neighbours.  The Khoisan believe strongly in a trickster deity who can be both foolish and wise. Khoisan is a term used by physical anthropologists to distinguish the aboriginal people of southern Africa from their black African farming neighbours. The original San hunter-gatherer groups lived on this land for about 100 000 years before the arrival of other black people and European settlers. The Khoisan people of the Northern Cape. The Khoisan people of the Northern Cape are descended from two different tribes. An amalgam of the original San hunter-gatherers and the later-arriving KhoiKhoi, they were virtually annihilated by subsequent settlers. For the language families subsumed under Khoisan, see Khoisan languages.  Khoisan  (/ˈkɔɪsɑːn/ ; also spelled Khoesaan, Khoesan or Khoe–San) is a unifying name for two groups of peoples of Southern Africa, who share physical and putative linguistic characteristics distinct from the Bantu majority of the region. Various Y-chromosome studies since confirmed that the Khoisan carry some of the most divergent (oldest) Y-chromosome haplogroups. These haplogroups are specific sub-groups of haplogroups A and B, the two earliest branches on the human Y-chromosome tree. The Khoisan (Khoesan) language family is the smallest of the language families of Africa. The name Khoisan derives from the name of the Khoe-Khoe (also known as the Hottentot) group of South Africa and the San (Bushmen) group of Namibia. Today, the Khoisan languages are spoken only in southwestern Africa, in the region around the Kalahari Desert extending from Angola to South Africa, and in one small area of Tanzania. However, the term ‘Khoisan’ is a relatively recent invention, coined in 1928 by Leonard Schultze as a collective category for early hunter-gathering and herding peoples of southern Africa, and a term which increasingly causes a degree of tension and controversy. This is due to the fact that Khoisan communities were dispossessed of most of their land uring the earlier colonial era, especially in the early nineteenth century, and hence the 1913 Native Land Act did not make any mention of Khoisan land confiscation. first known inhabitants of South Africa. Together the Khoi and the San people of South Africa are often called the Khoisan, a term that has been used to describe their broad similarity in cultural and biological origins. It is derived from the names Khoi and San. An 18th century drawing of Khoikhoi worshipping the moonThe San People or Bushmen of South Africa, also known as the Khoisan. The more pastoral Khoi people were to be found in the more well-watered areas along the western and southern coastal regions. Through such intermarriage and assimilation, Khoisan populations were exposed to languages from not only Europe and other parts of southern Africa, but also from South East Asia, with the huge presence of slaves from Dutch colonies such as Malaysia. This is due to the fact that Khoisan communities were dispossessed of most of their land uring the earlier colonial era, especially in the early nineteenth century, and hence the 1913 Native Land Act did not make any mention of Khoisan land confiscation. Khoisan family in the Kalahari desertcopyright © South African tourism-The San People or Bushmen of South Africa, also known as the Khoisan. There is a small group of San in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, today, who are trying to live as their predecessors did. An 18th century drawing of Khoikhoi worshipping the moonThe San People or Bushmen of South Africa, also known as the Khoisan. The more pastoral Khoi people were to be found in the more well-watered areas along the western and southern coastal regions.
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