352pp., maps, paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (1997) 2021
Contributions include:
"The Khoesan Languages of South Africa" by A. Traill
The Bantu Languages of South Africa: towards a sociohistorical perspective" by R. Bailey
"Fanakalo in South Africa" by R. Adendorff
"The Formation of Afrikaans" by Paul Roberge
"South African Black English: lexical and syntactic characteristics" by Q. Buthelezi
"An Introduction to Flaaitaal" by K. D. P. Makhudu
"Language Change, Survival, Decline: Indian Languages in South Africa" by R. Mesthrie
"Disabling and Enabling: implications of language policy trends in South Africa" by Kathleen Heugh.
Professor Rajend Mesthrie is SARChl Chair Holder, Linguistics Section, School of African & Gender Studies, Anthropology & Linguistics at the University of Cape Town.