The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and
postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an
interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and
language development. According to a widely accepted hypothesis,
the Khoesan languages represent the smallest of the four language
phyla in Africa, geographically distributed mainly in Botswana and
Namibia. Today, only 30 or so Khoesan languages may still exist,
with about 300,000 native speakers. In other words, most Khoesan
languages were already extinct before a sound scholarly interest in
them could begin to develop. Drawing together a distinguished group
of international experts, with much of the material taken from data
collected by the authors' own field work, this volume presents
descriptive, typological, historical-comparative and
sociolinguistic material on Khoesan. The Khoesan Languages contains
eight sections: an introduction, an overview of genetic
relationships, a typological survey and profile of Khoesan, four
chapters covering core linguistic areas of Khoesan phonetics and
phonology, tonology, morphology and syntax, and a final chapter
tackling major issues in Khoesan sociolinguistics, as well as
discussions of language contact. Comprehensive and scholarly, yet
also lucid in its coverage of a broad range of languages, dialects
and sub-groups, this unprecedented and original work represents the
current state of Khoesan linguistics.
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