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Theories: (a) Yiddish corruption of Parvenu; [15] (b) derives from an acronym for "Polish and Russian Union", supposedly a Jewish club founded in Kimberley in the 1870s, according to Bradford's Dictionary of South African English. [16]) The more assimilated and established Jews from Germany and England looked down on this group, and their ...
An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.
In 1924, the Oxford University Press published its first version of a South African English dictionary, The South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary. Subsequent editions of this dictionary have tried to take a "broad editorial approach" in including vocabulary terms native to South Africa, though the extent of this inclusion has been contested. [15]
Sa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign; sa (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "protection" Sa (kana) (さ and サ), characters (kana) in the two Japanese syllabaries; Saa language, spoken in Vanuatu; Sanskrit (ISO 639-1 code: sa), a historical Indo-Aryan language, the liturgical language of Hinduism
Sesotho sa Leboa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in the Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Limpopo provinces. [4] It is also known by Pedi or Sepedi and holds the status of an official language in South Africa .
Tsotsitaal is a South African vernacular dialect derived from a variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province (such as Soweto, Soshanguve, Tembisa), but also in other agglomerations all over South Africa.
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Typographical and spelling errors that were brought to the editors’ attention since the publication of the fifth edition in 2005 were corrected in the electronic dictionary and, in accordance with the Afrikaanse woordelys en spelreëls of the Afrikaans language commission of the SA Academy, certain improvements were applied.