Editing South African English (section)

== Coloured South African English ==
About 20% of all [[Coloureds|coloured]] people in South Africa speak English as a [[First language|home language]]. They are primarily concentrated in the provinces of [[KwaZulu-Natal]] and northeastern parts of the [[Eastern Cape]] in the former [[Transkei]] with some transplants being found in [[Johannesburg]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexander |first=Mary |date=June 10, 2019 |title=What languages do black, coloured, Indian and white South Africans speak? |url=https://southafrica-info.com/infographics/languages-black-coloured-indian-white-south-africans-speak/ |access-date=18 July 2022 |website=South Africa Gateway |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716195502/https://southafrica-info.com/infographics/languages-black-coloured-indian-white-south-africans-speak/ |archive-date=16 July 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Many people from these regions migrated to [[Durban]] and [[Pietermaritzburg]], where the most Anglophone coloureds can be found.<ref name=Fynn1999>{{Cite thesis |type=M.A. Thesis |last=Fynn |first=Lorraine Margaret |date=1991 |title=The "Coloured" Community of Durban: A Study of Changing Perceptions of Identity |publisher=[[University of Natal]] |location=[[Durban]] |hdl=10413/6802}}</ref>

Anglophone coloureds with European heritage have ancestry mostly from the [[British Isles]], which, along with originating in regions with very few [[Afrikaans]] speaking people, contributed to English being the main language of the coloured people in the region.<ref name=Fynn1999 />

The accent of Anglophone coloured people is influenced by their multiracial background, being descended from Europeans (British, [[Germany|German]], and Afrikaners), blacks ([[Zulu people|Zulu]] and [[Xhosa people|Xhosa]]), Indians (both [[Dravidian peoples|Dravidian]] and [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan]]) as well as other mixed people like [[Demographics of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha|St. Helenians]], [[Mauritian Creoles]] and some [[Griqua people|Griquas]]. This has influenced the accent to be one of the most distinctive in Southern Africa.

=== Cape Flats English ===
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A particular variety or sub-spectrum of South African English is [[Cape Flats English]], originally and best associated with inner-city [[Cape Coloured]] speakers.<ref name=KortmannSchneider2004>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtd3a-56ysUC|title= A Handbook of Varieties of English|editor-first=Bernd|editor-last=Kortmann|editor2-first=Edgar W.|editor2-last=Schneider|publisher=Mouton de Gruyter|location=Berlin/New York|year=2004|isbn= 978-3-11-017532-5}}</ref>