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('''[[SAE]]''','''SAfrE''', '''SAfrEng''',  '''en-ZA''') is a variant of standard English spoken by English-speaking South Africans. Long unrecognized, it is today accepted as a formal variant, which has a number of more informal sub-variants ("Afrikaner-English", "African English", "Township slang" etc).  
 
('''[[SAE]]''','''SAfrE''', '''SAfrEng''',  '''en-ZA''') is a variant of standard English spoken by English-speaking South Africans. Long unrecognized, it is today accepted as a formal variant, which has a number of more informal sub-variants ("Afrikaner-English", "African English", "Township slang" etc).  
  
'''Also see [[Language struggle]]'''
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Revision as of 06:05, 28 March 2014

(SAE,SAfrE, SAfrEng, en-ZA) is a variant of standard English spoken by English-speaking South Africans. Long unrecognized, it is today accepted as a formal variant, which has a number of more informal sub-variants ("Afrikaner-English", "African English", "Township slang" etc).


Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_English

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