The Khoesan and The Ovahimba Tribes: Language Preservation and Linguistic Nuances.
Lazarus Gawazah The Khoesan Indigenous Group. Linguistic Taxonomy within the Click Sounds Language Family. Source: http://www.museums.com.na/museums/north/little-hunter-s-living-museum The picture above shows a Khoesan man in a dug hole. Since the Khoesan people still exist in their natural desert habitat in groups of complete families, some researchers call them "a living museum". Introduction. Most Indigenous Languages in the World are under threat of extinction. It is important for researchers to work on a mechanism that prevents the death of these Languages. As such, the Khoesan click Languages spoken in Africa face the same challenge due to increased modernisation and an override by dominant non-native Languages in the Likes of the English Language, Arabic or French. This means that the term, “Language is culture” will no longer identify with these cultural groups because the loss of Languag...