What is Khoisan?
[[File:San lady botswana.jpg|thumb|A San woman in Botswana]] [[File:San tribesman.jpg|thumb|A San tribesman with traditional necklace]] The '''Khoisan''' is the name for two peoples of [[Southern Africa]]: the '''San''' and the '''Khoikhoi'''. The San are [[foraging]] bushmen, and the Khoi are a [[Herding#Herding occupations|pastoral]] people previously known as the '''Hottentots'''. The relationship between the two groups is not very clear. The San are generally smaller than other humans in the area. They also look very different than other groups of people there. As of 2018, between 90.000 and 100.000 San are left. Most of them live in [[Botswana]] and [[Namibia]]. There are San minorities in [[South Africa]], [[Angola]], [[Zambia]] and [[Zimbabwe]]. The San were some of the original ([[indigenous]]) inhabitants of Southern Africa. Then the southward [[Bantu]] migrations from [[North Africa|North]] and [[East Africa]] reached the region 700 years ago. The Bantu populations displaced the Khoi and San to become the predominant inhabitants of Southern Africa. The Khoisan “was the largest population on Earth at some point”, according to one evolutionary geneticist.<ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/12/dwindling-african-tribe-may-have-been-most-populous-group-planet ''Science'', December 4, 2014]</ref><ref>Lee, Richard B. 1976. ''Kalahari hunter-gatherers: studies of the !Khoi San and their neighbors''. Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore, eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.</ref> The evidence of the Khoisan's original presence in South Africa is the distribution of their languages today. Khoisan language groups often have extreme differences in structure and vocabulary despite close proximity, which demonstrates a long period of settlement and co-evolution of languages in the same region.<ref>Diamond, Jared 1999. ''Guns, germs, and steel''. New York: Norton, p384. {{ISBN|0-393-31755-2}}</ref> [[Image:Hotentoci-zOrgelbranda.jpg|thumb|left|Khoikhoi woman and man ''(drawing of 1900)''. The woman is exhi