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.
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]