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===Khoe=== {{Main|Khoe–Kwadi languages}} The Khoe family is both the most numerous and diverse family of Khoisan languages, with seven living languages and over a quarter million speakers. Although little Kwadi data is available, proto-Khoe–Kwadi reconstructions have been made for pronouns and some basic vocabulary. {{tree list}} *?'''[[Khoe–Kwadi languages|Khoe–Kwadi]]''' **[[Kwadi language|Kwadi]] (extinct) **[[Khoe languages|Khoe]] ***[[Khoekhoe language|Khoekhoe]] This branch appears to have been affected by the Kxʼa–Tuu ''[[sprachbund]]''. ****[[Nama language|Nama]] (ethnonyms Khoekhoen, Nama, Damara) (a dialect cluster including ǂAakhoe and Haiǁom) ****[[Eini dialect|Eini]] (extinct) ****South Khoekhoe *****[[Korana language|Korana]] (moribund) *****[[Xiri language|Xiri]] (moribund; a dialect cluster) ***[[Tshu–Khwe languages|Tshu–Khwe]] (or ''Kalahari)'' Many of these languages have undergone partial [[click loss]]. ****East Tshu–Khwe (East Kalahari) *****[[Shua language|Shua]] (a dialect cluster including Deti, Tsʼixa, ǀXaise, and Ganádi) *****[[Tsoa language|Tsoa]] (a dialect cluster including Cire Cire and Kua) ****West Tshu–Khwe (West Kalahari) *****[[Kxoe language|Kxoe]] (a dialect cluster including [[ǁAni language|ǁAni]] and Buga) *****[[Naro language|Naro]] (a dialect cluster, including [[ǂHaba language|ǂHaba]]) *****Gǁana–Gǀwi (a dialect cluster including [[Gǁana language|Gǁana]] and [[Gǀwi language|Gǀwi]]) {{tree list/end}} A [[Haiǁom people|Haiǁom]] language is listed in most Khoisan references. A century ago the Haiǁom people spoke a Ju dialect, probably close to ǃKung, but they now speak a divergent dialect of Nama. Thus their language is variously said to be extinct or to have 18,000 speakers, to be Ju or to be Khoe. (Their numbers have been included under Nama above.) They are known as the ''Saa'' by the Nama, and this is the source of the word ''[[San people|San]]''.
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