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The Khoekhoe language , ''Khoekhoegowab'', also known by the ethnic term Nama 〔Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student's Handbook'', Edinburgh〕 and formerly as Hottentot, is the most widespread of those non-Bantu languages of southern Africa that contain "click" sounds and have therefore been loosely classified as Khoisan. It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa by three ethnic groups, the Nama, Damara, and . It appears that the Damara picked up the language from the Nama in Botswana, and that they migrated to Namibia separately from the Nama. The (unicode:Haiǁom), who had spoken a Juu language, later shifted to Khoekhoe. The name for Nama speakers, ''Khoekhoen'', is from the Nama word ''khoe'' "person", with reduplication and the suffix ''-n'' to indicate the plural. Georg Friedrich Wreede was the first European to study the language, after arriving in Cape Town in 1659. Khoekhoe is a national language in Namibia, where it is used for teaching up to the university level as well as in the public administration. In Namibia and South Africa, state-owned broadcasting corporations produce and broadcast radio programmes in Khoekhoe. ==Dialects== Modern scholars generally see three dialects: *Nama–Damara, incl. Sesfontein Damara *Haiǁom *ǂĀkhoe, itself a dialect cluster, and intermediate between Haiǁom and the Kalahari Khoe languages These are distinct enough that they might be considered two or three distinct languages. *Eini (extinct) is also close, but is generally counted as a distinct language today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khoekhoe language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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