Home to 3 dialects represented on Dialect Atlas, spanning 3 language families.
also: Nama, Damara
The largest Khoisan language, spoken across Namibia and parts of Botswana and South Africa. The most-documented click language; one of the official languages of Namibia.
A West Germanic language descended from 17th-century Cape Dutch, with substantial substrate from Khoisan, Malay, and Bantu languages. One of the official languages of South Africa and widely spoken in Namibia.
also: Juǀʼhoansi, !Kung
A Kxʼa click language of the Kalahari, spoken by Juǀʼhoan San communities across north-eastern Namibia and north-western Botswana. The most thoroughly documented of the surviving San languages.