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Khoisan

//ˈkɔɪˌsɑn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The group of languages associated with the Khoisan including the Khoi, Kx'a and Tuu families, sometimes to the inclusion of the Hadza and Sandawe language isolates of Tanzania.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the group of non-Bantu Southern African indigenous people: the Khoi or San people.
  2. 2
    a family of languages spoken in southern Africa wordnet
  3. 3
    nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Khoi + San, from the pastoral Khoi tribe (formerly also called Hottentots) and the hunter-gatherer San (also known as Bushmen). Coined by Isaac Schapera in 1930, in linguistic usage since the 1950s (following Joseph Greenberg, Studies in African Linguistic Classification, 1955).

Etymology 2

From Khoi + San, from the pastoral Khoi tribe (formerly also called Hottentots) and the hunter-gatherer San (also known as Bushmen). Coined by Isaac Schapera in 1930, in linguistic usage since the 1950s (following Joseph Greenberg, Studies in African Linguistic Classification, 1955).

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