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South African English
RegionSouth Africa
EthnicitySouth Africans
Language family
Indo-European
  • Germanic
    • West Germanic
      • North Sea Germanic
        • Anglo-Frisian
          • Anglic
            • English
              • British English
                • South African English
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
  • Proto-Germanic
    • Old English
      • Middle English
        • Early Modern English
          • 19th century British English
Writing system
Latin (English alphabet)
Unified English Braille
Official status
Official language in
South African English South Africa
Regulated byEnglish Academy of Southern Africa
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologsout3331
IETFen-ZA
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Geographical distribution of English in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks English at home
  0–20%
  20–40%
  40–60%
  60–80%
  80–100%
Geographical distribution of English in South Africa: density of English home-language speakers. The four high-density clusters correspond to the locations of Pretoria and Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town (clockwise).
  <1 /km²
  1–3 /km²
  3–10 /km²
  10–30 /km²
  30–100 /km²
  100–300 /km²
  300–1000 /km²
  1000–3000 /km²
  >3000 /km²

South African English (SAfrE, SAfrEng, SAE, en-ZA)[a] is the set of English language dialects native to South Africans.
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