Khoisan Languages

The Khoisan languages are the smallest of the four main language families of Africa, the others being the Afro-Asiatic, the Niger-Kordofanian and the Nilo-Saharan families. Speakers of Khoisan are found mainly in southern Africa, especially Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. There are two small ethnic groups of hunter-gatherers in north Tanzania (Hadza and Sandawe) whose languages are also regarded as belonging to Khoisan. The total number of speakers is estimated to be 150.000.

We have several scientific publication series as well as a number of text collections, analyses, and collected papers that deal with Khoisan languages and Khoisan speakers in view of linguistics, literature, cultural anthropology and history.

PUBLICATION SERIES

Afrika erzählt

NAS Namibian African Studies

Research in Khoisan Studies / QKF Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung

MISCELLANEOUS

The Complete Linguist. Papers in Memory of Patrick J. Dickens
Edited by Anthony Traill, Rainer Vossen and Megan Biesele

Gustav Menzel: „Widerstand und Gottesfurcht“. Hendrik Witbooi – eine Biographie in zeitgenössischen Quellen
History, Cultural Traditions and Innovations in Southern Africa Volume 10

Günther Reeh: Hendrik Witbooi – ein Leben für die Freiheit. Zwischen Glaube und Zweifel

Ursula Trüper: Die Hottentottin – Das kurze Leben der Zara Schmelen (ca. 1793–1831), Missionsgehilfin und Sprachpionierin in Südafrika

Dagmar Wagner-Robertz: Ein Heilungsritual der Dama, Südwestafrika / Namibia
History, Cultural Traditions and Innovations in Southern Africa Volume12

Dagmar Wagner-Robertz: Liedtexte der Dama, Südwestafrika / Namibia
History, Cultural Traditions and Innovations in Southern Africa Volume 15