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  • 2 - Not ‘Deep’ but Still IsiXhosa:

  • Edited by Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, University of Cape Town, Heather Brookes, University of Cape Town
  • Book:
    Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa
    Published online:
    20 August 2021
    Print publication:
    09 September 2021, pp 39-65

  • Summary

    This chapter investigates what differentiates Standard isiXhosa, often referred to by speakers as 'deep isiXhosa', from other urban varieties of the language, including Tsotsitaal. It focuses on how the standard variety has an established status, although it is seldom strictly adhered to; dialects and lexical borrowing being some of the key historical drivers of variation in the grammar and vocabulary of the language. Contemporary deviation from the standard is exemplified in the chapter, which draws from research into the speech of the national isiXhosa radio station’s announcers and listeners and into the way young isiXhosa speakers use the language. The data show a flux in the concordial system of isiXhosa, a proliferation of English loanwords and ludic inclusions of Sesotho and Tsotsitaal.