Khoi·khoi

(koi′koi)

n. pl. Khoikhoi or Khoi·khois or Khoi·khoin (-koi′ĭn)

1. A member of a group of pastoral peoples of Namibia and South Africa, including the Nama.

2. Any of the Khoisan languages of the Khoikhoi. In both senses also called Khoekhoe.

[Nama khoekhoen, the Nama people : khoekhoe, to speak Nama (from khoe-, person, as in khoeb, man khoes, woman) + -n, pl. common gender suff.]

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Khoikhoin - any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa

Hottentot, Khoikhoi

Khoisan, Khoisan language - a family of languages spoken in southern Africa

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References in periodicals archive

Hierdeur is die Khoi-Khoin se vee drasties verminder, 'n Gevolg hiervan, merk Perm op (1995:70), was die 'disintegration of traditional Khoikhoin societies'.

A perspective on a period of contact between Khoi and Afrikaans/'n Perspektief op 'n periode van kontak tussen Khoi en Afrikaans

1992 "'The Most Wretched of the Human Race': The Iconography of the Khoikhoin (Hottentots 1500-1800)." History and Anthropology 5:285-330.

Writes of passage: The Cape of Good Hope in late seventeenth-century narratives of travel to Asia

The roughly 30,000 Khoikhoin, or Hottentots, are nomadic herders who breed herds of cattle, sheep, and goats; the milk of these animals is their basic foodstuff.

3 Humans in the hot deserts and subdeserts

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