Khoisan Discussion

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The Khoisan represent the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa combining the Khoekhoen and the San peoples who are believed to have populated the region before the Bantu expansion about 1500-2000 years ago. The language is full of click consonants and split into three separate and unrelated language families. The San are thought to be the foragers in the Kalahari Desert and regions of Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa. The Khoekhoe peoples may represent late Stone Age arrivals to Southern Africa, possibly displaced by the arrival of the Bantu. Interestingly the linguistic influence of the Khoisan seems to have influenced the Xhosa and Zulu languages which adopted click consonants. The original ancestors of the Khoisan are thought to have expanded to Southern Africa as early as 260,000 years ago.