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Khoekhoe (/ ˈ k ɔɪ k ɔɪ / KOY-koy; Khoekhoegowab, Khoekhoe pronunciation: [k͡xʰo̜͡ek͡xʰo̜͡egowab]), also known by the ethnic terms Nama (/ ˈ n ɑː m ə / NAH-mə; Namagowab), [3] Damara (ǂNūkhoegowab), or Nama/Damara [4] [5] and formerly as Hottentot, [b] is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that make heavy use of click consonants and therefore ...
This increased, as military conflict with the intensification of the colonial expansion of the United East India Company that began to enclose traditional grazing land for farms. Over the following century, the Khoe-speaking peoples were steadily driven off their land, resulting in numerous northwards migrations, and the reformulation of many ...
Damara man wearing a ǃgūb (loincloth) Damara women in ankle length Victorian style Damara Dresses adopted from the wives of missionaries The Damara, plural Damaran (Khoekhoegowab: ǂNūkhoen, Black people, German: Bergdamara, referring to their extended stay in hilly and mountainous sites, also called at various times the Daman or the Damaqua) are an ethnic group who make up 8.5% of Namibia ...
The most widely indigenous spoken languages are Oshiwambo dialects by 49% of the population; Khoekhoegowab by 11%; Afrikaans by 10%; RuKwangali by 9%; Otjiherero by 9%, and Silozi by 4.71%. [3] Other native languages include the Bantu languages Setswana , Gciriku , Fwe , Kuhane , Mbukushu , Yeyi ; and the Khoisan Naro , ǃXóõ , Kung-Ekoka ...
Doman's Khoikhoi name was Nommoa but he is more commonly known by the name the Dutch gave him. [1] Doman's Dutch name may be derived from the Afrikaans "dominee" meaning 'parson', but it might also be derived from the Khoikhoi word "domma" meaning 'voice' in the Khoekhoegowab language. [2]
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, as of 1 December 2007, lists 22 languages, [86]: 330 which are given in the table below together with the regions where they are used. [92] Fastest growing languages of India — Hindi (first), Kashmiri (second), Gujarati & Meitei/Manipuri (third), Bengali (fourth) — based on 2011 census of ...
At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all official languages are equal in legal status.