“The language is no longer spoken by many individuals due to our history; there is a great deal of emotional distress associated with it.”
She further stated, “We learned to speak Afrikaans and abandoned the N|uu language, despite the fact that we are not white; this has had an impact on our identity.”
The baas would bellow at us if we spoke the language, as they believed we were conversing, and we were
instructed not to make commotion, according to Esau’s late sister, Ouma Hanna Koper, who spoke to The Sunday Times.
According to Matthias Brenzinger, director of the Centre for African Language Diversity at the University of Cape Town,
the N|uu were eradicated by white settlers, occasionally with the assistance of residents, as reported by The Guardian.
