South African English is the set of English language dialects native to South Africans. South African English. Region, South Africa. White South African English · Black South African English

The English language in South Africa (SAE) dates from the arrival of the British at the Cape of Good Hope in 1795. As was the case in most colonies, English was ...

31 окт. 2024 г. · English is the home language of 9.6% of South Africans – a third of them not white. English is the language of public life: government, business and the media.

English has grown to be the predominant language for formal public purposes, particularly secondary and higher education.

15 мар. 2021 г. · South Africa is truly a multilingual society, with eleven official languages. Only about 9% of the South African population speak English as ...

Black South Africans make up the largest body of English users in South Africa with their own distinctive accent. African English (Afr. E) was initially a ...

In addition to English and Afrikaans, South Africa has other official languages: Ndebele,. Xhosa, Zulu, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Tswana, Swazi, Venda and Tsonga.

This is a list of words used in mainstream South African English but not usually found in other dialects of the English language. For internationally common ...

English is the most widely spread European language spoken in South Africa, brought to the country by British settlers in the 1820s.

The pronunciation of refers is /rəʹfɜːz/ and it's is /əts/. Thus RP /ɪ/ is normally realized as /ə/ in South African English (SAE).