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The difference between Black and White South Africans is based on their ethnic backgrounds, with them, as BSAE, being originally the first indigenous people that made a ''new'' English South Africa and developing speaking their tongue version of English and deciding not to speak South Africa's native language of English, which is mostly ...
Of the 1 billion Africans (in 2009), about 17 percent speak an Arabic dialect. [citation needed] About 10 percent speak Swahili, [citation needed] the lingua franca of Southeast Africa; about 5 percent speak a Berber dialect; [citation needed] and about 5 percent speak Hausa, which serves as a lingua
English is the sole official language of the Commonwealth of Nations and of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). English is one of the official languages of the United Nations , the European Union , the African Union , the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , the Caribbean Community , the Union of South American Nations , and ...
Black English, or African American English, is a language spoken among Black Americans, according to scholars. The language originated as Africans and Europeans interacted during the slave trade ...
At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all official languages are equal in legal status.
African-American English (or AAE; or Ebonics, also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the umbrella term [1] for English dialects spoken predominantly by Black people in the United States and many in Canada; [2] most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to more standard forms of English. [3]
African-American Vernacular English [a] (AAVE) [b] is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. [4]
Nigerian English, also known as Nigerian Standard English, is a variety of English spoken in Nigeria. [1] Based on British and American English, the dialect contains various loanwords and collocations from the native languages of Nigeria, due to the need to express concepts specific to the cultures of ethnic groups in the nation (e.g. senior wife).