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Stability and Change in Language Contact: The Case of Southern Ndebele (South Africa)

  • Head of research Prof. Axel Fleisch
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Compared to other official languages of South Africa, with 700,000 speakers S. Ndebele is a small language. Its speakers live close to major cities like Pretoria and Johannesburg and commonly use various other languages. Still, S. Ndebele speakers have been able to maintain their language. We want to find out how this works, and whether we can learn from this as a model for increasingly multilingual everyday lives that we live as Europeans.

Team

PhD Lotta Aunio, PhD Thera Crane, MA Stephan Schulz