Xuukhoe

Xuukhoe, meaning ‘people left behind’, is the self-name of the Tsʼixa-speaking San community of Mababe, on the eastern edge of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Tsʼixa belongs to the Kalahari Khoe branch of the Khoe-Kwadi family, the name is also used by some Khwe speakers, and its speakers are foragers classed by Bantu neighbours as Basarwa. Related Shua dialects such as Deti are spoken around the nearby Makgadikgadi pans.