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Publication details [#53774]

Webb, Vic. 2010. The politics of standardising Bantu languages in South Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 41 (2) : 157–174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | language attitude | language policy | language variety | standardization

Language as a subject

English | Languages, South African, Indigenous

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses the essential need for developing South African Bantu languages into fully-fledged standard language varieties, addressing necessary agencies for this development, involved processes (both top down and bottom up) and factors affecting standardisation.