Critical Toponymy: Place names in political, historical and commercial landscapes contains a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 4th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia. These papers present current thinking on how the critical turn in social sciences is manifested in toponymic research, not only locally but also internationally. As such it includes research on place names from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe,...

The Dictionary of Southern African Place Names - now in its 4th edition - helps you sort your Komkhulu from your Kommetjie with the most comprehensive glossary of Southern African towns, villages, railway stations, mountains, rivers and beaches. The 9 000 short entries incorporate data from sources dating as far back as 1486, encapsulating the linguistic and cultural heritage of all the peoples of the subcontinent, past and present. In this highly readable book the expert authors take you ...

The preservation of South Africa’s indigenous languages – the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular – is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source for documenting and preserving some of them. The subcontinent of Africa has been inhabited by Bushman, Khoikhoi and Bantu-speaking peoples for thousands of years, and, for the past few centuries, also by European-speaking peoples. Contact between these peoples brought abo...

/Xam is die taal wat gepraat is deur die /Xam-Boesmans wat binne menseheugenis suid van die Oranjerivier gewoon het, in die gebied wat vroeër bekend was as die Kaapkolonie. Mettertyd het Hollands en later Afrikaans hulle taal van voorkeur geword, en die /Xam-taal het in onbruik geraak. Hierdie amper vergete taal is hoofsaaklik deur WHI en DF Bleek opgeteken, en dit vorm ʼn belangrike deel van die kulturele erfenis van tallose nasate van die /Xam en ander San wat vandag Afrikaanssprekend is....