Nxng

The Nxng are the Nǁnǂe, better known as the ǂKhomani San, foragers of the southern Kalahari and the Orange River fringes in what is now South Africa's Northern Cape. Their language, Nǁng or Nǀuu, is a Tuu tongue of the ǃUi branch, closely related to the ǀXam speech of the Karoo.

In the eighteenth century colonial commando raids spread north of the Orange, and Griqua, Korana and other pastoralist groups attacked San camps, killing or carrying off women and children, until the barter of San children for livestock was banned in 1817.

Cut off from their waterholes, the surviving Nǁnǂe became clients and herders on Griqua and colonial farms, while Afrikaans and Nama displaced their language across the nineteenth century.