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Khoisan

group of African language families with click consonants
Language language_family Q33614
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Khoisan

Summary

Khoisan is a language family[1]. Khoisan ranks in the top 7% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,402 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Khoisan's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Khoisan is a type of human language[4].
  • Khoisan's Commons category is recorded as Khoisan languages[5].
  • Khoisan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Khoisan languages[6].
  • Khoisan's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+370000'}[7].
  • Khoisan's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8].
  • Khoisan's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • Khoisan's topic has template is recorded as Q10596037[10].
  • Khoisan's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KHI[11].
  • Khoisan's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133101452[12].
  • Khoisan's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].

Why It Matters

Khoisan ranks in the top 7% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,402 views/month).[2] Khoisan has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Khoisan is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Q10596037
    Subclass of → human language
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 12362, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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