Etymology

Khoisan

Khoi·san
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Today it means: A member of the group of non-Bantu Southern African indigenous people: the Khoi or San people. Full definition →

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The story

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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