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==Comparative vocabulary== Sample basic vocabulary for Khoisan language families: {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%" | ! Language !! eye !! ear !! nose !! tooth !! tongue !! mouth !! blood !! bone !! tree !! water !! eat |- | Proto-[[Khoe languages|Khoe]]<ref name="Vossen">Voßen, Rainer. 1997. ''Die Khoe-Sprachen: Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Sprachgeschichte Afrikas'' (Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung 12). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.</ref> || *≠xai || *≠ai || *≠ui || *//ũ || || *kxʔam || */ʔao || || || *≠̃a || *≠ʔũ || */xʔon |- | Proto-[[Khoekhoe languages|Khoekhoe]]<ref name="Vossen"/> || *≠xai || *≠ai || *≠ui || || || *//kxʔam || */ʔau || || || || *≠ʔũ || */xʔon |- | Proto-[[Khoe languages|Central Khoisan]]<ref>Baucom, Kenneth L. 1974. Proto-Central-Khoisan. In Voeltz, Erhard Friedrich Karl (ed.), ''Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on African linguistics'', 7–8 April 1972, 3-37. Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University.</ref> || *ǂxai || *ǂae || *ǂuii || *ǁõõ || *dham || *kx’am || *ǀ’ao || || *zei || *tsaa; *ǁami || *ǂ’ũ || *ǀkx’on |- | Proto-[[Tuu languages|Tuu]]<ref>Güldemann, Tom. 2005. ‘“Tuu”: A New Name for the Southern Khoisan Family’, in Tom Güldemann (ed.), ''Studies in Tuu (Southern Khoisan)''. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Languages and Literatures, 23 (Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Leipzig), pp. 2–9.</ref> || *tsʼaa || *nǂ(u)i || *nǀu, *nǀũ || *ǁkha(i) || *ǀʼãri > *ǀʼani || *thu || || || *ʘho, *nʘo, *nʘa || *!khaa || *ãa, *ãi || *ǀãe, *ǁae |- | [[Juǀʼhoan language|Žuǀʼhõansi]] ([[Tsumkwe language|Tsumkwe]])<ref>Snyman, Jan Winston. 1997. A preliminary classification of the ǃXũũ and Žuǀ'hõasi dialects. In Haacke, Wilfrid and Elderkin, Edward Derek (eds.), ''Namibian languages: reports and papers'', 21-106. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag; University of Namibia (UNAM).</ref> || gǀà’a̍ || ǀ’hū̍ || ts’ũ || ts’àu || dhārì || ts’i || ǀ’àng || || || || || |- | [[Sandawe language|Sandawe]]<ref>[http://www.drhelenipresume.com/?papers-conferences,7 Eaton, Helen], Daniel Hunziker and Elisabeth Hunziker. 2007. ''[https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/7875 A Sandawe dialect survey]''. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2007-014. [https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/13/72/23/137223930907147980961790077781008537281/silesr2007_014.pdf PDF].</ref> || ǀʷěː || kéké || ⁿǀáti̥ || !’àkʰã̌ː || !ʰẽ̂ː || ⁿ!ũ̂ː || ǁ’ék’â || !î || tʰěː || ts’â || mántʃʰâ || ǁʷâ |- | [[Hadza language|Hadza]]<ref>Miller, Kirk. 2019. [http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Hadza Hadza]. ''[[Glottopedia]]''.</ref> || || ʔakʷʰa || ɦat͜ʃ’apit͜ʃʰi || ʔiƞtʰawe || ʔaɦa || ⁿǀata || ʔawati || ʔatʰama || mic͜ʎ̥˔’a || t͜s’iti || ʔati || seme |}
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