Re: Basque & Katzner's Languages of the World
| From: | Matthew Pearson <matthew.pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 15, 2001, 18:59 |
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--- Elliott wrote:
I've still never
> seen anything else on these (maybe there's another name for Bushman? The
> Ethnologue isn't too helpful here).
Bushman is not very PC. Hottentot is prefered, IIRC
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No, Hottentot is also un-PC--and anyway it doesn't refer to the Bushmen, but to an
ethno-linguistically related group of cattle herders, I think. As far as
languages go, the PC term these days is "Khoisan" for the whole family of
languages, and tribal (?) names for the individual languages (Nama, !Xu~,
!Xoo~, etc.).
Matt.
Matthew Pearson
Department of Linguistics
Reed College
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