Harsunan Khoe

Harsunan Khoi / ˈkweɪ / [ ^[2] KWAY sune mafi girma a cikin iyalai waɗanda ba na Bantu ba ’yan asalin Kudancin Afirka. An taɓa ɗaukar su a matsayin reshe na dangin harshen Khoisan, kuma an san su da Tsakiyar Khoisan a wannan yanayin. Ko da yake yanzu an ƙi Khoisan a matsayin iyali, ana riƙe sunan a matsayin ɗan lokaci.

Yaren Khoi mafi yawa kuma sanannen yare shine Khoikhoi (Nama/Damara) na Namibiya . Sauran dangin ana samun galibi a cikin jejin Kalahari na Botswana . Harsunan sun yi kama da ta yadda za a iya samun ingantaccen matakin sadarwa tsakanin Khoikhoi da harsunan Botswana.

Harsunan Khoi sune harsunan Khoisan na farko da Turawa yan mulkin mallaka suka sani kuma sun shahara da dannawa, kodayake waɗannan ba su kai girma kamar na sauran iyalai na Khoisan ba. Akwai manyan rassa biyu na iyali, Khoikhoi na Namibiya da Afirka ta Kudu, da Tshu-Khwe na Botswana da Zimbabwe . Ban da Nama, suna fuskantar matsin lamba daga harsunan ƙasa ko na yanki kamar Tswana .

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/khoe1241 |chapterurl= missing title (help). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. ↑ Menan du Plessis (2019) The Khoisan Languages of Southern Africa