South African Indian English: Language Contact, Transmission, Shift

Mesthrie, Rajend

doi:10.1075/veaw.g15.07mes

In:Focus on South Africa
Edited by Vivian de Klerk
[Varieties of English Around the World G15] 1996
► pp. 79–98

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Language Contact, Transmission, Shift

South African Indian English

Rajend Mesthrie

Published online: 23 February 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g15.07mes

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