<P> Before the expansion of farming and herding peoples , including those speaking Bantu languages , Africa south of the equator was populated by neolithic hunting and foraging peoples . Some of them were ancestral to proto - Khoisan - speaking peoples , whose modern hunter - forager and linguistic descendants , the Khoekhoe and San , occupy the arid regions around the Kalahari desert . The Hadza and Sandawe populations in Tanzania comprise the other modern hunter - forager remnant in Africa of these proto - Khoisan - speaking peoples . </P>
<P> Before the expansion of farming and herding peoples , including those speaking Bantu languages , Africa south of the equator was populated by neolithic hunting and foraging peoples . Some of them were ancestral to proto - Khoisan - speaking peoples , whose modern hunter - forager and linguistic descendants , the Khoekhoe and San , occupy the arid regions around the Kalahari desert . The Hadza and Sandawe populations in Tanzania comprise the other modern hunter - forager remnant in Africa of these proto - Khoisan - speaking peoples . </P>
which modern language family was displaced by the migration of bantu speakers
which modern language family was displaced by the migration of bantu speakers
proto - Khoisan
proto - Khoisan