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 (2,030 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].
  • Khoisan's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Languages[14].
  • Khoisan's P14541 is recorded as 1TgsEZ[15].

Why It Matters

Khoisan ranks in the top 7% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,030 views/month).[2] Khoisan has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Khoisan is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . 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. 20d ago · Treisijs · 2026-09-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Languages
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6104]]: [[Q8486980]]"
  2. 7w 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. 12w 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. 20w 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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