"In Namibia, where it is also known as known as Khoekhoegowab, it is recognized as one of the national languages... most minority languages in Botswana are fast shifting to Setswana as the speakers of urban Tshabong as the speakers want to be part of the mainstream national development and to identify themselves with modern life, wider communication, flow of information, education and job opportunities which are not available through minority languages... The Khosean language speakers are even more prone to shifting to Setswana, as their languages have traditionally been associated with low esteem, serfdom stigma and low socio-economic status... Setswana is also used extensively, especially in inter-ethnic communication in the Tshabong Village. There's also considerable code-switching and code-mixing between Nama and Setswana. Other languages are also used, but to a lesser extent... Setswana was, by far, the second best known language, learnt either through peer groups or at school... Nama... the language in which the respondents had most confidence, followed by Setswana. The other languages could only be used by some of the respondents in certain situations... Most Nama people in Tshabong were very positive towards their language and its transmission to the younger generation. Nearly half of them wanted their children to learn Nama exclusively. However, several wanted also Setswana, and some even English... Several respondents reported that they would prefer that their children learn and speak Nama at home and that they could learn other languages at school. In fact, some of them would have preferred to send their children to Nama medium schools if they were established... The majority of the respondents did not wish that all people in Tshabong village speak Setswana, the national language exclusively, for the reason that people should be free to speak their own languages... Nama... by far, the most dominant language of the Nama people in Tshabong. Setswana was used only in the wider circles as well as in areas where written mode was needed, such as in schools and public places. In terms of attitudes, the Nama people were very positive about their language. They were considerably conservative in its use and were keen to to transmit it to the younger generation... although the majority of the Nama wanted to integrate into the mainstream of Batswana, they wished to preserve their ethnic identity as Nama... there is a reasonably stable diglossic use of the minority an majority languages, in that the minority language (Nama) is used in intra-ethnic communication, while the majority language (Setswana) is used in inter-ethnic interaction... in recent years, the pressures of the majority language has began to infringe upon the intra-ethnic domains... there is substantial emotional attachment to Nama by its speakers, particularly among the older generation... Many people resent the current trend towards code-switching, code-mixing and massive borrowing from Setswana... The people are proud of their speech and have great esteem of its form, including the several clicks and other peculiarities... The speakers have great attachment to the language and would like to see it transmitted to the younger generation."