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Hottentot (racial term)
Racial term for the Khoekhoe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Hottentot (disambiguation).
Hottentot (British and South African English /ˈhɒtənˌtɒt/ HOT-ən-TOT) is a term that was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, the indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa.
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Use of the term Hottentot is now considered offensive, the preferred name[according to whom?] for the non Bantu speaking indigenous people of the Western Cape area being Khoekhoe (formerly Khoikhoi).[2]