South African English is not unified in its pronunciation: this can be attributed to the fact that English is the mother language for only 40% of the caucasian inhabitants (the remainder having Afrikaans as their mother tongue) and only a tiny minority of black inhabitants of the region. The dialect can be, however, identified by many loan-words, mostly from Afrikaans, but increasingly also from isiZulu? and other African languages. Some of these words, like "trek", have seeped into general English usage.
South African English is not unified in its pronunciation: this can be attributed to the fact that English is the mother language for only 40% of the Caucasian (white) inhabitants (the remainder having Afrikaans as their mother tongue) and only a tiny minority of black inhabitants of the region. The dialect can be, however, identified by many loan-words, mostly from Afrikaans, but increasingly also from isiZulu? and other African languages. Some of these words, like "trek", have seeped into general English usage.
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