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Publication details [#66459]

Huyssteen, Linda van and Tebogo Jacob Rakgogo. 2019. A constitutional language name, lost in translation and its impact on the identity of the first language speakers. South African Journal of African Languages 39 (2) : 165–174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language | language use | naming1 | official language | translation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This inquiry examines the Sepedi language name that got lost during the translation of the English version of the Final Constitution of the Republic of South Africa into the other ten official languages of South Africa and to determine how the identity of the first language (L1) speakers of the examined language has been influenced by the use of both Sepedi and Sesotho sa Leboa as two designations for one official language.