Khoisan languages

Khoisan languages are facing a decline of speakers and subsequently these figures can further decline for the reason that minority languages usually have a decline in speakers rather than a gain. In Tanzania there are 126 languages so it would take an enormous growth of population in the Khoisan region for the minority language to become a majority language among all the other languages in Tanzania. Minority languages have a small amount of speakers belonging to a minority group. Khoisan is a small and an indigenous language which is spoken by indigenous groups of people and is native to regions in Sub-Saharan Africa. McIntyre (2015: 20) claims “Certain dialects are so restricted that only a small family group speaks them”. This suggests that…

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