Khoisan

[南非]克瓦桑语族(包括霍屯督语 Hottentot 和布须曼语 Bushman)

发音

UK /ˈkɔɪsɑːn/
其它
US /ˈkɔɪˌsɑn/

词形变化

Khoisans 复数 Khoisans

别名

Khoi-San

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of the group of non-Bantu Southern African indigenous people: the Khoi or San people.

name
  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.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

bushman

上位词 3

tongue nomad natural language

下位词 2

Hottentot Khoikhoi

词源

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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