Some situational variations or registers of Adang like pohang, pepel and baneharl no longer exist. Only two or three Adang speakers still have the knowledge of these language varieties. These varieties are no longer used in gatherings or events where they were formerly used. Such events are, for example, harvesting time for 'pepel' and also 'pohang'. One variety of Adang normally found in a traditional dance called 'holeng holeng' seems to have become extinct with the loss of the traditional dance itself.

Parents tend to teach and speak Bahasa Indonesia, rather than Adang, with their children. The reason is not only in order to make their children able to communicate with people from other language speaking backgrounds but also because Bahasa Indonesia is regarded as more prestigious than local languages. Therefore, the number of Adang speakers is decreasing very fast. The migration of Adang speakers to other places also contributes to the rapid decline in the number of Adang speakers.

"Adang is an endangered language; parents are choosing to teach their children Indonesian (and Alor Malay) instead of Adang. Certain special registers of Adang have disappeared entirely (Haan 2001: 6), and an experimental study shows that even supposedly bilingual young adults are beginning to lose proficiency in Adang (Hamilton et al. 2013)."

Ethnologue (2013) lists the vitality of Adang as: 6a (Vigorous)