In the 1990s there was concern amongst the ǂKhomani leadership about loss of the Nǁng language: many of those of the community who could speak a KhoeSan language actually spoke Nama.
During the 1990s, concerns arose within the ǂKhomani leadership regarding the decline of the Nǁng language; it was discovered that many community members who were proficient in a KhoeSan language actually spoke Nama.