Namaadj.n.

1862 W. H. I. Bleek Compar. Gram. S. Afr. Langs.: Pt. I i. 1 The Hottentot language is known to us in three or four different dialects, one of which (the Nama language) is represented by a large amount of missionary literature.

1864 W. H. I. Bleek Reynard Fox in S. Afr. p. xxix To make our available stock of Nama Hottentot literature quite complete.

1881 T. Hahn Tsuni-‖Goam i. 3 In the Nama language, one of the Khoikhoi idioms, the Bushmen are called Sā-n (com. plur).

1928 H. Vedder in Native Tribes S.W. Afr. 140 If one cannot think in the Nama language, one will never be able to learn to speak it.

1944 M. Oldevig Sunny Land 53 Three different Nama tribes.

1966 J. H. Greenberg Lang. Afr. (ed. 2) 68 Nama Hottentot indicates the past by an element go (in the usual orthography).

1978 Drum (Johannesburg) Aug. 58 I am a Nama-guy of Namibia,..and would like to correspond with ladies and gentlemen between the ages of 18 to 28.

1987 M. Ruhlen Guide World's Langs. I. 116 This name combines the Nama word for person (khoi or kxoe) with the Nama word for Bushmen (San).

1994 Afr. Environment & Wildlife Nov. 21/1 The name Augrabies is a corruption of the Nama word Aukoerebies which means ‘place of great noise’.

2000 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 15 Sept. 1 Mr. van Zyl's father acquired the family farm in the late 1950s, more that a quarter century after the Nama people were moved.

1911 P. A. Wagner in Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 13 111 The geological formations exposed in this part of German South-West Africa are as follows:..Otavi or Nama System.

1936 S. Afr. Geogr. Jrnl. 19 58 It seems very probable that large areas in the Kalahari underlain by Nama and Karroo beds will yield a fairly good amount of water.

1949 Amer. Midland Naturalist 41 698 The Humpata-Chela exposure is doubtless the northern continuation of the Nama System of South West Africa.

1965 G. N. G. Hamilton & H. B. S. Cooke Geol. for S. Afr. Students 199 The Nama System of South-West Africa extends southwards into the Cape.

1980 Stratigr. S. Afr. (S. Afr. Dept. Mineral & Energy Affairs: Geol. Surv.) VIII. i. 498 The first macrofossils of the Nama Group were discovered..in 1908 and 1914.

1881 T. Hahn Tsuni-‖Goam ii. 89 I afterwards made him a present of ammunition, and, as anxious as a Nama is to possess that most precious material, he said: ‘No; you want to pay [for] my cow, and I shall not accept it.’

1928 H. Vedder in Native Tribes S.W. Afr. 119 In about the year 1830, strenuous fighting was going on between the Nama and the Herero.

1944 M. Oldevig Sunny Land 51 Namas—or Hottentots.

1971 Times 21 June 12 Bitter struggles between the Hereros and the Namas made education and progress virtually impossible.

1982 Voice 18 July 9 The Hereros and the Namas were almost exclusively pastoral peoples: they farmed mainly with sheep, goats, cattle and horses.

1997 J. Diamond Guns, Germs & Steel (1997) xix. 376 On the streets of Windhoek, capital of newly independent Namibia, I saw black Herero people, black Ovambos, whites, and Namas.

1883 R. N. Cust Mod. Langs. Afr. II. 439 The Directors of the Rhenish Society..wrote in 1882 to the British and Foreign Bible Society to arrest any further printing of Books of the Old Testament in Nama, as that language was being superseded by Dutch.

1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. viii. 148 Hottentot dialects: viz. Nama (of the Namaqua) to the north-west, [etc.].

1966 J. H. Greenberg Lang. Afr. (ed. 2) 68 In Nama there is no phonemic distinction between k and g.

1987 M. Ruhlen Guide World's Langs. I. 116 Dorothea Bleek..showed that Nama, rather than constituting an independent branch of the family, belongs instead to the central group.

1997 W. Haacke et al. in W. Haacke & E. Elderkin Namibian Languages 150 The hitherto uncontested claim that the Damara lost their original language and adopted Nama, has been proved to be a fallacy.