Publications

Publication details [#49402]

Madiba, Mbulungeni. 2001. Towards a Model for Terminology Modernisation in the African Languages of South Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 32 (1) : 53–77.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

commercial language | language change | modernization | scientific language | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Languages, South African, Indigenous | Venda

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article tries to establish a systematic puristic-liberal approach to the modernisation of indigenous South African languages, and especially to Venda, given their lack of terminology in fields such as science, technology and commerce.