. Pioneers in South Africa . z w S3 < X < -J <. 2 Xen Z o-Jou < Prehistoric South Africa 41 early hybrid between the pure Bushman and some invadingrace of Negroes or Negroids. There is some reason tothink this invading race may have come from the vicinityof the Victoria Nyanza (Equatorial East Africa) and havebeen partly of Hamitic or semi-Caucasian race; for theHottentot language, though it possesses some of the Bush-man clicks and some slight resemblances in vocabulary, isnevertheless a speech of very superior type to that of theBushman. Like most of the languages originated by t
. Pioneers in South Africa . z w S3 < X < -J <. 2 Xen Z o-Jou < Prehistoric South Africa 41 early hybrid between the pure Bushman and some invadingrace of Negroes or Negroids. There is some reason tothink this invading race may have come from the vicinityof the Victoria Nyanza (Equatorial East Africa) and havebeen partly of Hamitic or semi-Caucasian race; for theHottentot language, though it possesses some of the Bush-man clicks and some slight resemblances in vocabulary, isnevertheless a speech of very superior type to that of theBushman. Like most of the languages originated by themodern white man, it distinguishes carefully between themasculine and feminine sex in the form of its words,pronouns, and adjectives. It also has a neuter as wellas a masculine and feminine gender, and in these points—or at any rate in the distinction between masculine andfeminine, as well as in others—it recalls similar featuresin the Hamitic tongues of north-east Africa; while someof its numerals and a few word roots in its vocabulariessuggest
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