McIntyre (2015: 20) claims “Certain dialects are so restricted that only a small family group speaks them”. This suggests that …show more content…
Khoisan is only used for communication within small communities and this is no means for the language to spread and successfully preserve. The Government is not doing enough to promote Khoisan and in effect the language attitudes of the Khoisan speakers are negative due to historical aspects having an effect on the current endangerment position of Khoisan, and due to the contrasting roles of majority and minority languages. The development of Khoisan language has not been recognised and subsequently it is hard to expect any up rise in use of the language as the African language policy has failed to support the speakers of Khoisan languages and only supports the official languages.
Dersso, S and Palermo, F (2013: 167) claim, “The 1996 constitution of South Africa designates 11 languages as official languages of the country. Additionally it provides for the development of the indigenous Khoi, Nama and San languages along with the official …show more content…
Khoisan language belongs to a region of indigenous speakers and can be defined by compromising small communities, with a shortfall of native speakers and a lack of children present in education. Khoisan speakers continue in trying to preserve and promote Khoisan by raising awareness of language tradition and history in an attempt for the Khoisan to survive as a spoken language. It is evident that the economical presence in society claims that all languages are equal, but no opportunity for Khoisan has been developed rather a trend in language shift seems the means to develop dominant languages whilst keeping Khoisan as a L1. Without being given official language status Khoisan will remain an endangered