San people
Members of various indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Southern Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region.[1] Their recent ancestral territories span Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho,[2] and South Africa.
Total population | |
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~105,000 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Botswana | 63,500 |
Namibia | 27,000 |
South Africa | 10,000 |
Angola | <5,000 |
Zimbabwe | 1,200 |
Languages | |
All languages of the Khoe, Kx'a, and Tuu language families, English, Portuguese | |
Religion | |
San religion, Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Khoekhoe, Coloureds, Basters, Griqua, Sotho, Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi, Ndebele, Pedi, Tswana, Lozi |
The Bushmen speak, or their ancestors spoke, languages of the Khoe, Tuu, and Kxʼa language families, and can be defined as a people only in contrast to neighboring pastoralists such as the Khoekhoe and descendants of more recent waves of immigration such as the Bantu, Europeans, and Asians.
In 2017, Botswana was home to approximately 63,500 San, making it the country with the highest proportion of San people at 2.8%.[3]