A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
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Title
Language in South Africa.
International Standard Book Number
052153383X
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Language and culture-- South Africa.
Language planning-- South Africa.
Language policy-- South Africa.
Sociolinguistics-- South Africa.
Afrikanische Sprachen
Geschichte
Language and culture.
Language and languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Sociolinguistics.