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Where is Nama spoken?
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The Nama language is primarily spoken in Namibia, where the Nama people constitute the largest Khoekhoe ethnic group. Additionally, smaller groups of speakers are located in South Africa and Botswana.1
While the broader Khoisan languages were once spoken across a vast region of southern Africa, their current distribution has become largely confined to Namibia and Botswana due to historical and demographic pressures.2