An Overview of the Khoisan Language family

Among all the language families of the world, the Khoisan languages are amongst the ones most neglected by linguistics. This page has the purpose of bringing the interesting syntactic and morphological structures of the Khoisan languages to the attention of the wider linguistics community. Since most studies of Khoisan language focus on instrumental phonetics, we will will not treat that topic in detail in this page.

We will temporarily be using the following phonetic symbols, until we can get the right fonts in place:

/	dental click
=	palatal click
!	alveolar click
//	lateral click
@	bilabial click