South African English is a
dialect of
English spoken in
South Africa and in neighbouring countries with a large number of
Anglo-Africans living in them, such as
Botswana,
Namibia, and
Zimbabwe. South African English is not unified in its pronunciation: this can be attributed to the fact that English is the
mother tongue for only 40% of the white inhabitants (the remainder mostly having
Afrikaans as their mother tongue) and only a tiny minority of black African inhabitants of the region. (In addition some 94% of the 1.1 million inhabitants of
Asian descent, and 19% of the 4 million
Coloured, or mixed race, inhabitants are English mother tongue speakers.) The dialect can be identified, however, by the multiple
loanwords drawn largely from Afrikaans, but increasingly also from
Zulu and other
indigenous languages. Some of these words, like "trek", have seeped into general English usage throughout the globe.
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