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Publication details [#58083]
Ngcobo, Mtholeni. 2013. Loan words classification in isiZulu: The need for a sociolinguistic approach. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 44 (1) : 21–38. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
The relatively flexible loanword classification in isiZulu is based on sociolinguistic premises, in contrast to former classification views drawing mainly from English and Afrikaans. A spoken corpus-based method is used and there is a comparison with isiXhosa.