Language and Social History: Studies in South African SociolinguisticsRajend Mesthrie |
Contents
The Khoesan languages of South Africa | 1 |
Sociolinguistic evidence of Nguni Sotho Tsonga and Venda origins | 39 |
The formation of Afrikaans | 68 |
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Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics Rajend Mesthrie Limited preview - 1995 |
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acrolectal African languages Afrikaans apartheid Bantu languages basilect Berthoud Bhojpuri bilingualism Bleek borrowing Bushman Cape Dutch Cape Town century code-switching colonial coloured consonants context Creole cultural dialect dominant English and Afrikaans example Fanakalo Flaaitaal genetic German grammar guage Gwamba Henri Berthoud historical linguistics hlonipha identity Indian influence interaction Iscamtho Johannesburg Junod Khoe language Khoekhoe Khoesan language planning language policy lexical lexicon lexis male means mesolect Mesthrie mission missionaries mother-tongue multilingual Natal Nguni noun occur official language origin pattern phonological pidgin political Pretoria Raidt reference Ronga SAIE semantic slang slaves social society sociolinguistic South Africa South African English southern Africa Southern Bantu Southern Sotho speak speakers speech community Spelonken spoken status structure Thonga tion Transvaal Tsotsitaal Tswana University Press urban varieties Venda verb vocabulary vowel Witwatersrand women words Xhosa Zulu
References to this book
Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings Christine Bratt Paulston,G. Richard Tucker No preview available - 2003 |