What is Khoisan languages?
[[File:Khoi-San.png|thumb|Khoisan lanuages in Africa are shown in yellow.]] '''Khoisan languages''' is the name for a group of [[Language|languages]] that are spoken in Southern [[Africa]]. All of these languages have [[Click consonant|click consonants]], and they are not part of the [[Niger–Congo languages]], the [[Nilo-Saharan languages]], or the [[Afroasiatic languages]]. These languages are not in one common [[language family]], there are at least three such families. There are also some [[Language isolate|language isolates]] on the territory where Khoisan languages can be found. It is not possible to construct or find a language that is the common ancestor of the other languages. The [[San people|San]], [[Khoikhoi|Khoekhoe]], [[Damara people|Damara]], [[Nama people|Nama]], as well as the [[Hadza people|Hadza]] and [[Sandawe people|Sandawe]] are all speakers of Khoisan languages. Many of these languages only have very few speakers, or they have become [[Extinct languages|extinct]]. Many are only spoken, and not written. The only widespread Khoisan language is [[Khoekhoe language|Khoekhoe]] (also known as Khoekhoegowab, Nàmá or Damara) of [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]] and [[South Africa]], with a quarter of a million speakers; [[Sandawe language|Sandawe]] in [[Tanzania]] is second in number with some 40–80,000, some monolingual; and the [[ǃKung language]] of the northern Kalahari spoken by some 16,000 or so people. Language use is quite strong among the 20,000 speakers of [[Naro language|Naro]], in Botswana and in eastern Namibia, half of whom speak it as a second language. [[Category:Languages of Africa]]