Against All Odds: The Survival of Fanagalo in South African Mines

Ravyse, Natasha E.

doi:10.1080/10228195.2018.1440319

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“…Some languages have more second-language (L2) speakers, for example Urdu has more than twice as many L2 speakers as L1. Some languages have only L2 speakers, such as Fanagalo (or Fanakalo), a "lingua franca" from Africa which aids communication between people with different L1 languages, particularly in the mining industry (Ravyse 2018). Fanagalo is primarily used in the workplace or as a "market language", not learned by children as their first language.…”

Section: Population Size and Endangermentmentioning

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Language endangerment: Using analytical methods from conservation biology to illuminate loss of linguistic diversity

Bromham

2023

Camb. prisms Extinction

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Impact statement2022 marks the beginning of the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages, declared to draw attention to the catastrophic loss of global linguistic diversity, and the need to act swiftly to safeguard minority languages. To what extent can analytical tools developed in conservation biology to document patterns and causes of species diversity be applied to understanding language endangerment and loss? Many methods from biology can be adapted with due recognition of both the similarities and differences between language loss and species endangerment. While global-scale analyses cannot capture key local processes contributing to language endangerment and loss, they can reveal some general patterns that may help to identify general contributors to loss of linguistic diversity.

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Section: Population Size and Endangermentmentioning

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Language endangerment: Using analytical methods from conservation biology to illuminate loss of linguistic diversity

Bromham

2023

Camb. prisms Extinction

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“…"кухонна/ламана мова африкаанс") "мішана форма комунікації, яка спирається на перемикання коду між англійською мовою та африкаанс" [26, p. 69-70]. Інші піджини, як фанагало (Fanagalo "pidgin language that grew up mainly on South Africa's gold mines to allow communication between white supervisors and African labourers during the colonial and apartheid era; it combines elements of the Nguni lan-guages, English, and Afrikaans"), отримують протилежні оцінки серед населення ПАР й сприймаються мовцями або як символ соціальної ідентичності, або як "нецивілізована мова" [41].…”

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Ecological Conditions of Modern South African English Development and Functioning

Avramenko¹

2020

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Aнотація. Статтю присвячено аналізу екологічних умов функціонування сучасного варіанту англійської мови в Південно-Африканській Республіці. Доведено доцільність аналізу негомогенних форм існування мови в аспекті лінгвістичної екології, охарактеризовано сучасний стан південноафриканського варіанту за низкою критеріїв (лінгвогеографічний, соціолінгвістичний, структурний). Визначено основні джерела поповнення лексичної системи, шляхи її формування та сфери максимальної концентрації регіонально маркованих одиниць. Результати дослідження переконують у потужності впливу екологічного чинника на формування своєрідності лексичної системи англійської мови в Південній Африці порівняно з генетичним та типологічним чинниками.Ключові слова: лінгвістична екологія, мовний контакт, мовна варіативність, південно-африканський варіант англійської мови, внутрішньосистемна неоднорідність.

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Between two fires

Ravyse

Zyl

2022

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This article focuses on the advocacy of social justice through the implementation of language policies in South African universities. Noting the multilingual complexity of South Africa with 111 official languages and the intricacies surrounding South Africa’s political and sociocultural borders, the submission explores the advocacy of social justice in informing the reappraisal and the ensuing implementation of such a language policy by exploring constitutive dimensions (specifically identity) and instrumental dimensions (non-identity/functional aspects) from a linguistic justice perspective. The institution used as a case study is the North-West University (NWU) which is a by-product of three campuses that were merged in 2004. The authors use survey data eliciting opinions about revising the institution’s language policy. Central to the analysis is how linguistic justice could be exercised in consideration of constitutive vs instrumental dimensions based on the work of De Schutter (2007). With 20, 000 responses, the authors used a qualitative analysis, supplemented by frequencies, to tease apart identity and non-identity aspects to determine which of these had a closer relationship with linguistic justice and the selected institution’s language policy. The results of this study aim to offer insight into future revisions of higher education language policies in order to fulfil the mandate of linguistic justice.

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Against All Odds: The Survival of Fanagalo in South African Mines

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Language endangerment: Using analytical methods from conservation biology to illuminate loss of linguistic diversity

Language endangerment: Using analytical methods from conservation biology to illuminate loss of linguistic diversity

Ecological Conditions of Modern South African English Development and Functioning

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