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Kay McCormick & R. Mestrie (eds.), Post-Apartheid South Africa. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 136. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2002

Susan M. Suzman
Susan M. Suzman
Affiliation:
Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 104susan@muse.wits.ac.za
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Abstract

In South Africa, the transition from an apartheid regime to a popularly elected government in 1994 made possible wide-ranging changes in power relations in every sphere of human interaction, including language. Under the new political dispensation, there are 11 official languages (listed in order of numbers of speakers): Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Tswana, North Sotho, English, South Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Ndebele, and Venda. They replace English and Afrikaans, formerly the 2 official languages.

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Language in Society , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 265 - 268
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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