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Khwe (Kxoe)

Khwedam

ThreatenedKhoe-Kwadi, Khoe (Kalahari branch)Namibia, Botswana, Angola, ZambiaSeveral thousand, unevenly distributed0 documented words

Khwe is one of the larger surviving Khoe languages, spoken across four countries by San and Khoe communities. It is threatened rather than moribund, but displacement and schooling in dominant languages are eroding transmission.

Khwe (Kxoe) — English word list

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History and language shift

Khwe communities have been displaced repeatedly by conflict and conservation policy across the Namibia, Botswana and Angola borderlands.

Revitalization

Orthography development and mother-tongue schooling pilots exist in Namibia.