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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Richtersveld1.jpg
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[edit] Reply
Hey Newydd,
I forgot about the Namaqua, thanks for correcting me. I was thinking about the Khoikhoi of the Cape region (see map). I've now reverted my edit. Cheers! —Khoikhoi 19:01, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Khoekhoen
Hey Newydd,
Well yeah, both Britannica and Encarta say it means "men of men" in the Khoikhoi language. To clarify, you're saying it just means "people speaking the Khoekhoe language"? Are you sure that's the literal translation? For example, khoisan.org says the following:
Khoekhoen = Khoikhoi = Kwena is a general name which the herding people of the Cape used for themselves. The word can be translated to mean 'the real people' or 'men of men', meaning 'we people with domestic animals' as opposed to the Sonqua or Bushmen who had none.
Khoikhoi 16:22, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, that sounds fair to me. We can say, "coming from the root khoe, meaning 'man'". Or is "khoi" a better transliteration? Khoikhoi 02:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] classification under apartheid
do u have any info on the khoisan under apartheid? i read they were sometimes clased as colored to create more tension between them and zulu people.--HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 23:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Then Xhosas, but i know there was already tension because the Khoisan were victims of Bantu Expansion, so Europeans in the divide and conquere thingie needed to further this riff, i have heard this not from text books but from many South African people, its like common local knowledge, even today people seem focused on "she is a colored, she is a black" and this is the entire racial divide, even children have this conversation "i am part colored, i am not black"--HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 12:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] DAT/LAT change in Tsez
Thanks for changing them. Indeed this is also how I usually gloss them when glossing Tsez texts; I was still a little inconsistend when writing the article. So: DAT in syntactical positions (usually for persons) and LAT for the locative meaning. "Real" latives are used on some adverbial nouns that denote positions like "below" or "here". When I'm back at my office, I will find you a glossed phrase with a Lative suffix. — N-true 13:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Richtersveld1.jpg
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[edit] World Heritage Site
Please note that specifically area of the Richtersveld Community Conservancy [1] was declared a World Heritage Site. The National Park is not even in the WHS - specifically because of mining activities within the boundaries of the park. The article at present gives the impression that the RNP = the Richtersveld WHS. The conservancy is similar in area to the RNP, but just to the south - see map at [2].