Re: Basque & Katzner's Languages of the World

In a message dated 11/16/01 8:51:12 PM, dbarr@ATTCANADA.CA writes:

>Sgriobh Josh Roth:
>
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>> Where else would I ever have seen Sibo writing, or Bushman? I've still
>never
>> seen anything else on these (maybe there's another name for Bushman?
>The
>> Ethnologue isn't too helpful here).
>
>The "Bushman" languages, along with their relatives the "Hottentot"
>languages, are now called the "Khoisan" languages - "khoi" and "san" are
>the
>respective words for "people" (I *think* "khoi" is the Bushman word, though
>I could be wrong). Look for "Khoisan."
>
>Doug
Katzner doesn't use "Bushman" to refer to the whole family - he does in fact
call the family Khoisan. Within that family, he lists a few languages:
Bushman, Hottentot, Sandawe, Hatsa (Hadzapi). He gives texts and blurbs for
Bushman and Hottentot. Ethnologue lists a number of languages for the Khoisan
family, but none by the name of "Bushman" (though IIRC a few had "Bushman" as
PART of an alternate name) - so I still don't know which is identical to the
language that Katzner called "Bushman."
Hmmm ... just noticed that he gives a source for his Bushman text (unlike
some others). I'll see if my library has it.

Josh Roth
http://members.aol.com/fuscian/eloshtan.html