Khoesan Languages

Rainer Vossen is a University Professor and Executive Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Frankfurt upon Main, Germany.

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Rainer Vossen 1. General background 2. Typological characteristics. 3. The intended audience 4. The contents 5. Geographical coverage Chapter 2: Genetic relationships: an overview of the evidence Henry Honken 1. Introduction 2. Previous work in the field 3. Agreements and disagreements 4. South African Khoesan 5. East African Khoesan 6. For and against Chapter 3: Typology Tom Güldemann 1. Introduction 2. Morphosyntax 3. Phonetics and phonology 4. Toward a typological profile of Khoesan Chapter 4: Phonetics and phonology 1. Hadza Bonny Sands 2. Sandawe Edward D.Elderkin 3. South African Khoesan 3.1. Northern Khoesan Amanda Miller 3.2. Central Khoesan 3.2.1. Namibian Khoekhoe and !Gora Wilfrid H.G. Haacke 3.2.2. Hai§om Thomas Widlockl 3.2.3. Kxoe subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.2.4. Naro Hessel Visser 3.2.5. §Gana subgroup Hirosi Nakagawa 3.2.6. Shua subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.2.7. Tshwa subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.3. Southern Khoesan (Tuu languages) Tom Güldemann 3.4. Eastern =Hoan Henry HJonken 3.5. Kwadi Tom Güldemann Chapter 5: Tonology 1. Hadza Bonny Sands 2. Sandawe Edward D. Elderkin 3. South African Khoesan 3.1. Northern Khoesan Amanda Miller 3.2. Central Khoesan 3.2.1. Namibian Khoekhoe Wilfred H.G. Haacke 3.2.2. Kxoe subgroup: Khwe, §Ani Rainer Vossen 3.2.3. Naro Hessel Visser 3.2.4. §Gana subgroup: "Gui Hirosi Nakagawa 3.2.5. Shua subgroup: Cara, Deti Rainer Vossen 3.2.6. Tshwa subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.3. Southern Khoesan: !Xóõ Amanda Miller 3.4. Eastern =Hoan Henry Honken Chapter 6: Morphology 1. Hadza Bonny Sands 2. Sandawe Edward D. Elderkin 3. South African Khoesan 3.1. Northern Khoesan Bernd Heine and Christa König 3.2. Central Khoesan 3.2.1. Namibian Khoekhoe Wilfrid H.G. Haacke 3.2.2 !.Gora Wilfrid H.G. Haacke 3.2.3. Hai§om Thomas Widlok 3.2.4. Kxoe subgroup Rainer Vossen and Mathias Schladt 3.2.5. Naro Hessel Visser 3.2.6. §Gana subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.2.7. Shua subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.2.8. Tshwa subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.3. Southern Khoesan (Tuu languages) Tom Güldemann 3.4 Eastern =Hoan. Henry Honken Chapter 7: Syntax 1. Hadza Bonny Sands 2. Sandawe Edward D. Elderkin 3. South African Khoesan 3.1. Northern Khoesan: !Xun Bernd Heine and Christa König 3.2. Central Khoesan 3.2.1. Namibian Khoekhoe Wilfrid H.G. Haacke 3.2.2. !Gora Wilfrid H.G. Haacke 3.2.3. Hai§om Thomas Wodlok 3.2.4. Kxoe subgroup: Khwe Christa Killan-Hatz 3.2.5. Naro Hessel Visser 3.2.6. §Gana subgroup: "Gui Hirosi Nakagawa 3.2.7. Shua subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.2.8. Tshwa subgroup Rainer Vossen 3.3. Southern Khoesan (Tuu languages) Tom Güldemann 3.4. Eastern =Hoan Henry Honken 3.5. Kwadi Tom Güldemann Chapter 8: Language contact and sociolinguistics 1. The impact of Khoesan on southern Bantu J.A. Louw 2. BantuKhoesan language contacts in northern Botswana Gabriele Sommer 3. Traces of Bantu-Khoesan interaction in Manyo (Kavango Bantu, Namibia) Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig 4. South African Khoekhoe in contact with Dutch/Afrikaans Hans den Besten 5. Contact-induced change between Khoekhoe and Afrikaans Wilfrid H.G. Haacke 6. Namibian Ju"’hoansi in contact with speakers of Afrikaans Amanda Miller 7. Hai§om language contact Thomas Widlok 8. Khoesan-internal contacts Tom Güldemann 9. Extinct Khoesan languages of Eastern Africa Christopher Ehret 10. The sociolinguistic situation of Khoesan languages today Gabriele Sommer and Thomas Widlok Bibliography Language index Subject index