Languages, Part 5b AUM sign in Tamil script Other languages in South Africa In the Wikipedia (see extract below), we saw that there are many other significant languages used in South Africa. We saw that the South African Constitution says that the Pan South African Language Board must: ...promote and ensure respect for - (i) all languages commonly used by communities in South Africa, including German <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language> , Greek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language> ,Gujarati <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_language> , Hindi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language> , Portuguese <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language> , Tamil <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language> , Telegu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language> and Urdu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu> ; and (ii) Arabic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language> , Hebrew <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language> , Sanskrit <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_language> and other languages used for religious purposes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_language> in South Africa. This part of our course is a reminder of the importance of these languages. Other significant languages spoken in South Africa (Wikipedia) Other languages spoken in South Africa, though not mentioned in the Constitution, include Fanagalo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanagalo> , Lobedu ( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobedu_language> Khilobedu), Northern Ndebele ( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ndebele_language> Sindebele), Phuthi ( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phuthi_language> Siphuthi). Lobedu has been variously claimed to be a dialect of Northern Sotho and an autonomous language. Fanagalo is a pidgin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin> often used as a mining lingua franca <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca> . Significant numbers of immigrants from Europe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe> , elsewhere in Africa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa> , and the Indian subcontinent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_subcontinent> means that a wide variety of other languages can also be found in parts of South Africa. In the older immigrant communities there are: Greek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language> , Gujarati <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_language> , Hindi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language> , Portuguese <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language> , Tamil <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language> , Urdu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu> , Yiddish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_language> , and smaller numbers of Dutch, French <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language> and German <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language> speakers. These non-official languages may be used in limited semi-official ways where it has been determined that these languages are prevalent. More importantly, these languages have significant local functions in specific communities whose identity is tightly bound around the linguistic and cultural identity that these non-official SA languages signal. The fastest growing non-official language is Portuguese - first spoken by white, black, and mulato <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulato> settlers and refugees from Angola <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola> and Mozambique <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique> after they won independence from Portugal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal> and now by more recent immigrants from those countries again - and increasingly French, spoken by immigrants and refugees from Francophone <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francophone> Central Africa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa> . More recently, speakers of North <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa> , Central and West African <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa> languages have arrived in South Africa, mostly in the major cities, especially in Johannesburg <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg> and Pretoria <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria> , but also Cape Town <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town> and Durban <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban> . . To download any of the CU courses in PDF files please click here <https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/> . -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. 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