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Due to English being an official language of South Africa, dialects that have contrary methods in language and pronunciation to English become isolated from the speech in that area. For instance, "it lacks the tense/lax contrast and central vowels in the mesolectal variety." [5]
SATI's purpose is to promote the interests of the translation profession in South Africa, chiefly through: undertaking, promoting and/or publishing research; publishing a journal and various language and translation guides; enforcing a code of ethics for translators; co-operating with other organisations and institutions to promote the profession
Focus on South Africa. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 90-272-4873-7. Lanham, Len W. (1967). The pronunciation of South African English. Cape Town: Balkema. OCLC 457559. Prinsloo, Claude Pierre (2000). A comparative acoustic analysis of the long vowels and diphthongs of Afrikaans and South African English (PDF) (M.Eng thesis). Pretoria ...
The most common language spoken as a first language by South Africans is Zulu (23%), followed by Xhosa (16%), and Afrikaans (14%). English is the fourth most common first language in the country (9.6%), but is understood in most urban areas and is the dominant language in government and the media.
Cape Flats English (abbreviated CFE) or Coloured English is the variety of South African English spoken mostly in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. [1] Its speakers most often refer to it as "broken English", which probably reflects a perception that it is simply inadequately-learned English, but, according to Karen Malan, it is a distinct, legitimate dialect of English.
The English Academy of Southern Africa, founded in 1961, is dedicated to promoting the effective use of English as a dynamic language in Southern Africa. [38] A few South African English coinages are listed below:
Almost all South Africans speak English to some degree of proficiency, in addition to their native language, with English acting as a lingua franca in commerce, education, and government. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] South Africa has twelve official languages, but other indigenous languages are spoken by smaller groups, chiefly Khoisan languages .
Sabela is a covert communication dialect of several major South African languages formed by the Numbers gang. [1] [2] Sabela was originally developed in the mines during the early 1900's as a means of communication between the members of The Numbers Gang but as the gang's influence grew in various South African prisons, the language became eminent in prison and since then, released inmates ...