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South African English : ウィキペディア英語版 | South African English
South African English (SAfrE, SAfrEng, SAE, en-ZA〔en-ZA is the language code for South African English, as defined by ISO standards (see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and Internet standards (see IETF language tag).〕) is the set of English dialects spoken by South Africans. There is huge social and regional variation within South African English. Three variants (termed "The Great Trichotomy" by Roger Lass) are commonly identified within White South African English (as in Australian English), spoken primarily by White South Africans: "Cultivated", closely approximating England's standard Received Pronunciation and associated with the upper class; "General", a social indicator of the middle class; and "Broad", associated with the working class, and closely approximating the second-language Afrikaner variety called Afrikaans English. At least two sociolinguistic variants have been definitively studied on a post-creole continuum for the second-language Black South African English spoken by most Black South Africans: a high-end, prestigious "acrolect" and a more middle-ranging, mainstream "mesolect." Other varieties of South African English include Cape Flats English, originally associated with inner-city Cape Coloured speakers, and the Indian South African English of Indian South Africans. Further offshoots include the first-language English varieties spoken by Zimbabweans, Zambians, Swazilanders and Namibians. ==Pronunciation== Like English in southern England, such as London, South African English is non-rhotic (except for some Afrikaans-influenced speakers, see below) and features the trap–bath split. The two main phonological indicators of South African English are the behaviour of the vowels in ''kit'' and ''bath''. The ''kit'' vowel tends to be "split" so that there is a clear allophonic variation between the close, front and a somewhat more central . The ''bath'' vowel is characteristically open and back in the General and Broad varieties of SAE. The tendency to monophthongise both and to and respectively, are also typical features of General and Broad SAE. Features involving consonants include the tendency for voiceless plosives to be unaspirated in stressed word-initial environments, ''tune'' and ''dune'' tend to be realised as and respectively (See Yod coalescence), and has a strong tendency to be voiced initially.
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