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Covers the "Central Khoisan" grouping (part of the "wider Khoisan" hypothesis).
Comprising 2 sets of languages (= 14 outer languages) spoken by herding or hunter-gatherer communities in Southwestern Africa, in and around the Kalahari desert.
The symbols used conventionally to transcribe consonantal clicks in many language-names within zones 08= and 09= are recorded in column 3, but these symbols have been converted to Latin alphabetic characters for the spelling and indexing of reference-names (all names in column 2, and bold names in column 3) as follows:
p’ = bilabial click (
c’ = dental click /
t’ = dento-alveolar click ≠
q’ = retroflex click !
l’ = lateral click //.