Difference between revisions of "South African English"

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('''[[SAE]]''','''SAfrE''', '''SAfrEng''',  '''en-ZA''') is the form  of English spoken by English-speaking South Africans. Long unrecognized, it is today accepted as a formal variant of standard English.  
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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).  
  
'''See [[Language struggle]]'''
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'''Also see [[Language struggle]]'''

Revision as of 06:00, 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).

Also see Language struggle