Editing South African English (section)

=== Grammar ===
Black South African English analysis has not been researched or utilised enough due to its contrasting methods to Southern British norms.<ref name=":12" /> BSAE has contrasting pronunciation and organisation of vowels and consonants compared to the ones in more commonly used languages such as other varieties of English.<ref name=":22">{{Cite journal |last=Makalela |first=Leketi |date=2013 |title=Black South African English on the Radio |journal=World Englishes |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=93–107|doi=10.1111/weng.12007 }}</ref> Due to English being an official language of South Africa, dialects that have contrary methods in language and pronunciation to English become isolated from the speech in that area. For instance, "it lacks the tense/lax contrast and central vowels in the mesolectal variety."<ref name=":12" />

In Black South African English, the length of vowels is changeable, and vowel length can be understood as stress placement, with some deviation from Standard English. An example of this is in the word "sevénty", which has primary stress on the penultimate, rather than the initial, syllable.<ref name=":12" />

Additionally, BSAE differs from other forms of dialect by "having shorter tone/information units and having lower pitch and decrease intensity as the sentence concludes."<ref name=":12" />

Certain words such as "maybe" are used as conditional words that imply the result of something if a thing or event were to happen. Another distinctive trait of BSAE is the use of the word "that" as a complementiser. BSAE also has a high frequency of the retention of question word order, 0.86 per 1000 words.<ref name=":22" />

Other findings show that the Cultural Linguistic explorations of World Englishes have been evaluating BSAE based on its cognitive sociolinguistic principles. It is a language that is still being studied due to its strong cultural and traditional ties to its mother tongues.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Peters |first=Arne |title=Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes |publisher=Springer Nature |year=2021 |isbn=978-981-15-4695-2 |pages=356 |language=English}}</ref>