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The Khoisan languages (also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are the languages of Africa that have click consonants but do not belong to other language families. For much of the 20th century they were thought to have a genealogical relationship with each other but this is no longer accepted.All Khoisan languages but two are indigenous to southern Africa and belong to three language families of which the Khoi family appears to have migrated to southern Africa not long before the Bantu expansion.

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