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Khoisan Languages

Khoisan Languages is a linguistic classification encompassing a diverse group of African languages characterized by the prominent use of click consonants and historically grouped together based on areal and typological features, though not necessarily genealogical relatedness.

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92

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59

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2017–2026

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Publications

48

History of Click-Speaking Populations of Africa Inferred from mtDNA and Y Chromosome Genetic Variation

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Mary Katherine Gonder, Brenna M. Henn et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2007 · 279 citations · Full text

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A Historical Appraisal of Clicks: A Linguistic and Genetic Population Perspective

Tom Güldemann, Mark Stoneking · Annual Review of Anthropology · 2008 · 207 citations

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The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa: Bushmen and Hottentots

A. W. · African Affairs · 1930 · 183 citations

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Prehistoric language contact in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier area: Khoisan influence on southwestern Bantu languages

Hilde Gunnink, Bonny Sands, Brigitte Pakendorf et al. · Journal of African Languages and Linguistics · 2015 · 165 citations · Full text

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Prehistoric and historic traces in the mtDNA of Mozambique: insights into the Bantu expansions and the slave trade.

Luı́sa Pereira, Vincent Macaulay, Antonio Torroni et al. · PubMed · 2001 · 159 citations

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Authors

92

  1. TG
    Tom Güldemann

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    7 publications · 591 citations

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  2. AT
    A. Traill

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    4 publications · 239 citations

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  3. HG
    Hilde Gunnink

    Ghent University, Belgium

    3 publications · 359 citations

    3

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  4. BS
    Bonny Sands

    Northern Arizona University, United States

    3 publications · 323 citations

    3

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  5. AC
    Andy Chebanne

    Kyoto University of Education, Japan

    2 publications · 45 citations

    2

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Institutions

59

  1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    728 citations

  2. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    497 citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    242 citations

  4. Northern Arizona University

    Flagstaff, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    323 citations

  5. Ghent University

    Ghent, Belgium

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    454 citations

  6. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

    Villeurbanne, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    227 citations

  7. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    87 citations

  8. University of Zambia

    Lusaka, Zambia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    59 citations

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Venues

  1. Language Dynamics and Change

    3 publications · 182 citations

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  2. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

    2 publications · 236 citations

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  4. Africa

    2 publications · 74 citations

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  5. Diachronica

    2 publications · 222 citations

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