The Political Economy of the Harmonisation of the Nguni and the Sotho Languages

The Political Economy of the Harmonisation of the Nguni and the Sotho Languages

<p>The author believes that it is essential to revisit the issue of the harmonisation of the African languages of South Africa. He maintains that most people who have been writing on the subject locally have not understood the kernel of the original Nhlapo-Alexander proposal and restat...

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Main Author: Neville Alexander
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2012-09-01
Series:Lexikos
Subjects:
standardisation
harmonisation
language planning
standard nguni
standard sotho
ethnicity
nation-building
african languages
ausbau languages
language engineering
mutual intelligibility
pan south african language board
language modernisation
Online Access:http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/957

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