South African 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).

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Also see Language struggle

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

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