Cape Flats English: phonology

Cape Flats English (CFE) originated in working class neighborhoods in innercity Cape Town. However, as a result of Apartheid social engineering, most of its speakers now live far from the city centre in a number of adjoining areas collectively known as ‘The Cape Flats’. (The name refers to a large, flat, sandy expanse bordered by mountain ranges and the sea.).

 

This variety of English is also sometimes called ‘Colored English’ but that term is problematic for two reasons. Firstly, it is an over-generalization: not all people who were classified as ‘Colored’ during the Apartheid era speak this dialect since they are not homogenous with regard to region and social class. Secondly, the term ‘Colored’ as a descriptor is not universally accepted by those to whom it has been applied. From the mid 19^th century, it was used to refer to people of mixed Asian, African, and European ancestry. A hundred years later, it was assigned by the Apartheid government to people who did not fit its two major population categories: ‘European’ or ‘white’, and ‘Bantu’ or ’black’. It was thus a catch-all category for people who did not constitute a group on any intrinsic grounds of shared ethnicity, culture or region. For this reason ‘colored identity’ is still a hotly debated concept. However, segregation did create some common ground which is of sociolinguistic significance because it minimized the possibility of intensive contact with speakers of other varieties of English. Members of each official population group were forced to spend most of their lives together in segregated residential areas, educational, leisure and other institutions.

الاكثر قراءة في Phonology

Minimal pairs and sets

Aspiration

Phones and allophones

Finding the underlying form

Assimilations

The Sonority Sequencing Generalization

Major class features

Feature geometry

Standard lexical sets

Place of articulation

Bukusu: nasal+consonant combinations

Allophony in other languages

Floating tones

Natural classes

Dissimilation

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

عباس.. طفل فقد والده فوجد في خدمة زائري عاشوراء وطنًا آمنًا

شعبة الخطابة النسوية تواصل إقامة مجالس العزاء في شهر المحرم الحرام

لليوم الخامس.. العتبة العباسية المقدسة تقيم مجلس عزاء في صحن مرقد أبي الفضل العباس (عليه السلام)

قسم الشؤون الفكرية يقيم مجلس عزاء حسيني في العاصمة التنزانية دار السلام

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

لمن تجاوز الستين.. عليك بشرب 4 أكواب من القهوة يوميا ؟

الحليب مع العسل.. مزيج يمنحك 7 فوائد صحية

لا تبالغ في التنظيف.. قليل من "الاتساخ" قد يحمي عائلتك

دراسة تكشف علاقة خطيرة بين عمر الأم وصحة مولودها

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

هل هاتفك مراقب؟.. 5 علامات خطيرة تكشف التجسس عليك

دبي تطلق أول رحلة تجريبية للتاكسي الجوي

كيف تساعد الصيانة الوقائية في الحفاظ على كفاءة التكييف في سيارتك ؟

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المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Spelling and Pronunciation SUMMARY

American English vs. British English

Morphological Basis of English Spelling

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Vowels

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Consonants

Spelling and Pronunciation Irregularity of English Spelling

Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology SUMMARY

Perception

Optimality Theory (OT)

Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM)

Markedness

Hypercontrast