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=== Classification === The difference between Black and White South Africans is based on their ethnic backgrounds, with them, as BSAE, being originally the first indigenous people that made a <nowiki>''new'' English South Africa and developing speaking their tongue version of English and deciding not to speak South Africa'</nowiki>s native language of English, which is mostly exclusive for them due to it not being the majority language. In SAE it is primarily used for publicising the differences between British and other forms of tongue speaking for native speakers in various communities of South Africa.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mesthrie |first1=Rajend |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqaGb_SEQHUC&dq=South+african+english&pg=PA104 |title=Language in South Africa |last2=Rajend |first2=Mesthrie |date=2002-10-17 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-79105-2 |pages=104 |language=en}}</ref> The local native language of Black South African "new" English would lean more on the syllable side and would lean less on stress timing; due to this, the speech of the language would be affected by the length of vowel deduction in "new" English.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mesthrie |first1=Rajend |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqaGb_SEQHUC&dq=How+is+black+south+african+is+different+than+normal+south+african+english&pg=PA356 |title=Language in South Africa |last2=Rajend |first2=Mesthrie |date=2002-10-17 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-79105-2 |pages=361 |language=en}}</ref>
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