KHOISAN LANGUAGE

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Meaning:

A family of languages spoken in southern Africa

Synonyms:

Khoisan; Khoisan language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Khoisan language" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Khoisan language"):

Hottentot; Khoikhoi; Khoikhoin (any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa)

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