KHOISAN LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Khoisan language mean? 

• KHOISAN LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun KHOISAN LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a family of languages spoken in southern Africa

  Familiarity information: KHOISAN LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KHOISAN LANGUAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of languages spoken in southern Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Khoisan; Khoisan language

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)