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Khoisan

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

Khoisan is a language family[1]. Khoisan ranks in the top 7% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,657 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: human language[3]
  • Commons category: Khoisan languages[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Khoisan languages[5]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 370,000[6]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[8]
  • Topic has template: Šablona:Kojsanské jazyky[9]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KHI[10], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133101452[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[13]
  • P14541: 1TgsEZ[14]

Why It Matters

Khoisan has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Khoisan is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 28d ago · Treisijs · 2026-09-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Languages
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Languages"
  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i73072
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06954103-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1TgsEZ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Šablona:Kojsanské jazyky
    Subclass of → human language
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 12362, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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