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| Cape Flats English | |
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| Region | Cape Town |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | cape1242 |
Cape Flats English (abbreviatedCFE) orColoured English is the variety ofSouth African English spoken mostly in theCape Flats area ofCape Town.[1] Its speakers most often refer to it as "broken English", which probably reflects a perception that it is simply inadequately-learned English, but, according to Karen Malan, it is a distinct, legitimate dialect of English.[2]
Cape Flats English is very close tothe Broad (or "Extreme") variety of White South African English.Wood (1987) argues that the Respectable−Extreme (or "Cultivated−Broad") dichotomy can also be set up for CFE itself, with the former being used by themiddle class (whose L1 tends to be CFE) and the latter being used by theworking class (whose L1 tends to be the Cape Vernacular variety ofAfrikaans).[3]
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