Haiǁom people

Haiǁom people

The Haiǁom are a Khoisan people of Namibia.
The Haiǁom speak Haiǁom language, which is a Central Khoisan language and a member of the Khoekhoe dialect continuum.
According to the official census there were 7,506 Haiǁom speakers living in northern Namibia in 1991 but as with all figures on people and languages of low reputation this count is not very reliable. According to other sources the number of speakers reaches 16,000 (www.ethnologue.com).
Many speakers of Haiǁom have maintained an unusual cultural profile as hunter-gatherers. Striking features include healing trance dances, hunting magic and intensive usage of wild plant and insect food, a unique kinship and naming system, frequent storytelling, and the use of a landscape-term system for spatial orientation.

External links

* DOBES documentation project on Haiǁom [http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/akhoe]


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