The second point of transfer was near the Caprivi Strip and the Okavango River, where it was apparently the Yeyi language which borrowed the clicks from a West Kalihari Khoe language, and which in turn passed on a reduced click inventory to the neighboring Mbukushu, Kwangali, Gciriku, Kuhane, and Fwe languages in Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia.

See Khoe languages for speculations on the linguistic history of the region.

The Khoe family is both the most numerous and diverse family of Khoisan languages, with seven living languages and over a quarter million speakers.

The Sandawe speak a language that may be related to the Khoe languages of Botswana and Namibia, while the language of the Hadza, although it has similar click consonants, is a language isolate.

* One of the Khoe languages

Naro is a trade language among speakers of different Khoe languages in the Ghanzi District.

Category: Khoe languages

Category: Khoe languages

Category: Khoe languages

Category: Khoe languages

It is sometimes classified as the most known divergent member of the Khoe family, or, equivalently, linked to the Khoe languages in a " Kwadi – Khoe " family, though this conclusion is disputed.

Proponents say it appears to have preserved elements of proto-Khoe that were lost in the western Khoe languages under the influence of Juu languages in Botswana.

It has been suggested that the similarities of the Tuu and Kx ' a families are due to a southern African Sprachbund rather than a genealogical relationship, whereas the Khoe ( or perhaps Kwadi – Khoe ) family is a more recent migrant to the area, and may be related to Sandawe in East Africa.

The Tuu family consists of two language clusters, which are related to each other at about the distance of Khoekhoe and Tshukhwe within Khoe.

Thus their language is variously said to be extinct or to have 18, 000 speakers, to be Ju or to be Khoe.

It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa by three ethnic groups, the Nama, Damara, and

Naro, also Nharo, is a Khoe language spoken in the Ghanzi District of Botswana and in eastern Namibia.

Nonetheless, Gǀui has the largest known inventory of clicks of any Khoe language.

Tsoa or Tshwa, also known as Kua and Hiechware, is a Khoe language spoken by some 7, 400 people in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

* Hietshware language ( also called Tsoa language ), a Khoe language

Shwa or Shwakhwe, commonly spelled Shua, is a Khoe language of Botswana.

Xiri or Xirikwa, in Afrikaans orthography Gri or Griqua ( ethnonym Xirigowap, also called " Cape Hottentot "), is a Khoe language of South Africa.

Korana, or ǃOra, is a moribund Khoe language of South Africa.

There is some indication that Sandawe ( about 40, 000 speakers in Tanzania ) may be related to the Khoe family, such as a congruent pronominal system and some good Swadesh-list matches, but not enough to establish regular sound correspondences.

Khoisan ( also spelled Khoesaan, Khoesan or Khoe – San ) is a unifying name for two ethnic groups of Southern Africa, who share physical and putative linguistic characteristics distinct from the Bantu majority of the region.

" Bushmen " is still being used by some individuals, though considered obsolete by others ( the use of " San " is acceptable, despite its origins as a derogatory Khoe term for the Bushmen ), while " Hottentot " is generally considered derogatory and is no longer used (" Khoe " should be used instead ).

If the Bushmen need to be grouped with the Khoe pastoralist groups, the term Khoe – San is preferred.

Other terms used to describe the Khoisan people include Bushmen, referring to the San, and Hottentot, referring to the Khoi or Khoe.

Khwe Kxoe ( or ) is a dialect continuum of the Khoe family of Namibia, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and small parts of Zambia, with some 11, 000 speakers.

Although little data is available, proto-Kwadi – Khoe reconstructions have been made for pronouns and some basic vocabulary.

Khoi derives from the old Nama word for " person ", while Khoe is the modern Nama word.

Similar to findings from Y-Chromosome studies, mitochondrial DNA studies also showed evidence that the Khoe – San people carry high frequencies of the earliest haplogroup branches in the human mitochondrial DNA tree.

The most divergent ( oldest ) mitochondrial haplogroup, L0d, have been identified at its highest frequencies in the southern African Khoe and San groups.

They successfully changed popular hooker hang-out Jarvis St. to " Stan Khoe Ave .", the notoriously gay neighbourhood Church Street to " Lou Sass Blvd.

Gǁana ( pronounced in English, and also spelled ǁGana, Gxana, Dxana, Xgana ) is a Khoe dialect cluster of Botswana.

In the southeast, in eastern South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language or languages by the languages of the Nguni cluster ( especially Zulu, Xhosa, and Phuthi, but also to a lesser extent Swazi and Ndebele ), and spread from them in a reduced fashion to the Zulu-based pidgin Fanagalo, Sesotho, Tsonga, Ronga, the Mzimba dialect of Tumbuka, and more recently to Ndau and urban varieties of Pedi, where the spread of clicks is an ongoing process.

The size of click inventories ranges from as few as three ( in Sesotho ) or four ( in Dahalo ), to dozens in the Kx ' a and Tuu ( Northern and Southern Khoisan ) languages.

In Danish many of the vowel phonemes have distinct pharyngealized qualities, and in the Tuu languages epiglottalized vowels are phonemic.

Like the Tuu languages, with which it was previously classified, has five click " types ": bilabial, dental, alveolar, palatal, and lateral alveolar.

Category: Tuu languages

Functional programming is also supported in some domain-specific programming languages like R ( statistics ), Mathematica ( symbolic math ), J, K and Q from Kx Systems ( financial analysis ), XQuery / XSLT ( XML ) and Opal.

They are typologically very similar to the Kx ' a languages ( below ), but have not been demonstrated to be related to them genealogically.

Category: Kx ' a languages