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Khoikhoi

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Khoi·khoin  (koikoin) or Khoi·khoi (koikoi)
n. pl. Khoikhoin or Khoi·khoins or Khoikhoi or Khoi·khois
1. A member of a pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa.
2. Any of the Khoisan languages of the Khoikhoin, including Nama.
[Nama khoi-khoi-n, the Nama people : khoi-khoi, to speak Nama (from khoi-, human being) + -n, pl. common gender suff.]
Khoikhoi [kɔɪˈkɔɪ xɔɪˈxɔɪ]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) a member of a race of people of Southern Africa, of short stature and a dark yellowish-brown complexion, who formerly occupied the region near the Cape of Good Hope and are now almost extinct
2. (Linguistics / Languages) any of the languages of this people, belonging to the Khoisan family
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Noun1.KhoikhoiKhoikhoi - any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa
Hottentot, Khoikhoin
Khoisan, Khoisan language - a family of languages spoken in southern Africa


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Many accounts of the "Hottentots" or Khoikhoi of South Africa related how the children were greased when young to make them blacker, a trait that was supposedly passed on to subsequent generations by some mysterious process.
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A woman of the Khoikhoi peoples who followed and tended cattle through the lush Cape valleys, she chose to join up with the European newcomers, learn their language, wear their clothes, be baptized in their church, and marry their surgeon.
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By the early nineteenth century the conquest of the peoples known as the Khoikhoi, Hottentot, and Bushmen was nearly complete.
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