Editing Khwe language (section)

== Classification ==
Khwe is a member of the [[Khoe languages|Khoe]] branch of the larger Khoe-Kwadi language family.

In 2000, the meeting of the Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in South Africa (WIMSA) produced the Penduka Declaration on the Standardisation of Ju and Khoe Languages,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|title = The Penduka Declaration on the Standardisation of Ju and Khoe Languages|last = Working Group of Indigenous Minorities of Southern Africa (WIMSA)|date = 20 April 2011|location = Windhoek, Namibia|publisher = Penduka Training Centre}}</ref> which recommends Khwe be classified as part of the Central Khoe-San family, a cluster language comprising Khwe, ǁAni and Buga.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|url = http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/viewFile/134/75|title = The Role of Dictionaries in the Documentation and Codification of African Languages: The Case of Khoisan|last = Chebanne|first = Andy|date = 19 July 2010|journal = Lexikos|publisher = Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)|volume = 24}}</ref>

''Khwe'' is the preferred spelling as recommended by the Penduka Declaration,<ref name=":0" /> but the language is also referred to as ''Kxoe'', ''Khoe-dam'' and ''Khwedam''. ''Barakwena, Barakwengo'' and ''Mbarakwena'' refer to speakers of the language and are considered pejorative.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics|publisher = Oxford University Press|location = New York|pages = 363|editor-last = Bright|editor-first = William|volume = 4}}</ref>

Other names and spellings of ǁAni include ''ǀ᪶Anda<!--e.g. in Rainer Voßen 1997 Die Khoe-Sprachen-->, Gǀanda, Handá, Gani'' and ''Tanne'' with various combinations of ''-kwe/khwe/khoe'' and ''-dam.''