Langenesis

Khoe-Kwadi family

Proto-Khoe-Kwadi

c. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Khoe-Kwadi (c. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Khoe-Kwadi language family, with 2 descendant languages and stages on the map.

See Proto-Khoe-Kwadi on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Khoe languages and extinct Kwadi (Angola). "Khoisan" is an areal-typological label for click languages, not a demonstrated family; Khoe-Kwadi, Kx'a and Tuu are modelled separately. Khoe-Kwadi may have arrived in southern Africa with pastoralists from East Africa.

Descendants 2

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