[buyx]

How do you know it was violent? We don't know for sure about a genocide, but we do know that the distinctive click consonants in some of the bigger South African Bantu languages were borrowed from Khoisan languages. If there was a genocide of Khoisan by Bantu speakers, how would these unusual sounds have permeated into the Bantu languages, along with the genes?

Of course, there is no written history, but it is an interesting contrast that Afrikaans-which recorded history unequivocally shows spreading in lockstep with violent dispossession-hasn't got any click consonants, despite developing in an area where click languages predominated (SW Cape), and despite having a fair amount of Khoisan stock in a big chunk of its native speaking population (Cape Coloureds).

[barking]

>How do you know it was violent?

I don't but most peoples, like most animals are territorial and resist the movement of others into their territory.

Your language theory is interesting. But then the english language as spoken in many areas where it would be the language of the non-peaceful invader inherits from the local language. And getting on for half the words in the english language itself were adopted from the French language of the Normans invaders.