South African English

(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

For more information

Also see Language struggle

Return to

Return to South African Theatre Terminology and Thematic Entries

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page