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South African English (SAE, en-ZA) is a dialect of English spoken in South Africa and in neighbouring countries with a large number of Anglo-African living in them, such as Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Lesotho. 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... full article at wikipedia
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