South African English
E2048
South African English is the variety of English spoken in South Africa, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and influences from Afrikaans and indigenous African languages.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South African English canonical | 5 |
| Black South African English | 1 |
| Cape Flats English dialect | 1 |
| English South African | 1 |
| Indian South African English | 1 |
| South African Indian English | 1 |
| White South African English | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10356 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: South African English Context triple: [English, hasMajorVariety, South African English]
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English
English is a widely spoken West Germanic language that serves as a global lingua franca in education, business, science, and international communication.
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B.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa known for its dramatic landscapes, diverse wildlife, and historical sites such as Victoria Falls and the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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C.
Dutch American
Dutch Americans are U.S. residents and citizens of Dutch ancestry, historically known for their early settlement in New York and the Midwest and their cultural influence on American politics, religion, and community life.
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D.
British West Indies
The British West Indies were a group of Caribbean colonies under British rule, central to the Atlantic slave trade and plantation-based sugar economy from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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E.
ATE
ATE is a U.S. National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians for advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: South African English Target entity description: South African English is the variety of English spoken in South Africa, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and influences from Afrikaans and indigenous African languages.
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A.
Afrikaners
Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group descended primarily from Dutch settlers, known for speaking Afrikaans and playing a central role in the country’s colonial and apartheid-era history.
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B.
English
English is a widely spoken West Germanic language that serves as a global lingua franca in education, business, science, and international communication.
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C.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa known for its dramatic landscapes, diverse wildlife, and historical sites such as Victoria Falls and the Great Zimbabwe ruins.
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D.
Dutch American
Dutch Americans are U.S. residents and citizens of Dutch ancestry, historically known for their early settlement in New York and the Midwest and their cultural influence on American politics, religion, and community life.
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E.
British West Indies
The British West Indies were a group of Caribbean colonies under British rule, central to the Atlantic slave trade and plantation-based sugar economy from the 17th to 19th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dialect of English
ⓘ
variety of English ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | British English ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
distinctive pronunciation
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distinctive vocabulary ⓘ lexical borrowings from Afrikaans ⓘ lexical borrowings from Bantu languages ⓘ rhoticity generally absent ⓘ vowel system distinct from British English ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
Afrikaans
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Xhosa ⓘ Zulu ⓘ other indigenous African languages ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
distinct realization of KIT vowel
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merger patterns influenced by Afrikaans phonology ⓘ non-rhotic postvocalic /r/ ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
South African English
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Black South African English
Coloured South African English ⓘ South African English self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Indian South African English
South African English self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
White South African English
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| hasWord |
bakkie (meaning pickup truck)
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braai (meaning barbecue) ⓘ eish (expression of surprise or dismay) ⓘ howzit (informal greeting) ⓘ is it? (used as discourse marker) ⓘ ja (meaning yes, from Afrikaans) ⓘ just now (with local temporal meaning) ⓘ kiff (slang for cool or great) ⓘ lekker (meaning nice or good) ⓘ now now (with local temporal meaning) ⓘ robot (meaning traffic light) ⓘ shame (with distinctive pragmatic use) ⓘ takkies (meaning sneakers or trainers) ⓘ |
| historicallyInfluencedBy |
Afrikaans-accented English
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British English ⓘ Received Pronunciation ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Indo-European languages ⓘ |
| languageSubbranch | West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | one of the major varieties of World Englishes ⓘ |
| spokenIn | South Africa ⓘ |
| usedAs | lingua franca in South Africa ⓘ |
| usedBy | speakers of diverse ethnic backgrounds in South Africa ⓘ |
| usedIn |
business in South Africa
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education in South Africa ⓘ government in South Africa ⓘ media in South Africa ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: South African English Description of subject: South African English is the variety of English spoken in South Africa, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and influences from Afrikaans and indigenous African languages.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.