South African English

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South African English
Region	South Africa
Ethnicity	South Africans
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English British English South African English
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Old English Middle English Early Modern English 19th century British English
Writing system	Latin (English alphabet) Unified English Braille
Official status
Official language in	South Africa
Regulated by	English Academy of Southern Africa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`sout3331`
IETF	`en-ZA`
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South African English (SAfrE, SAfrEng, SAE, en-ZA)^[a] is the set of English language dialects native to South Africans.
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