A case for the use of Northern Sotho as an Official Indigenous Language in Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo Province

Autor:	Mphoto Mogoboya, Sekgaila Chokoe, Kgabo L. Mphela
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Geography Interview Constitution media_common.quotation_subject Ethnology General Medicine Official language Indigenous language Vitality The Republic Indigenous Qualitative research media_common
Zdroj:	African Journal of Gender, Society and Development (formerly Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa). 9:265-289
ISSN:	2634-3622 2634-3614
DOI:	10.31920/2634-3622/2020/v9n4a12
Popis:	This paper strives to make a case for the use of Northern Sotho as an indigenous official language in the post-apartheid South Africa. It contends that though Northern Sotho is constitutionally accorded the status of an official language in the new South Africa, it is marginalised in its practical everyday use as other languages still dominate it. The paper utilised Capricorn District Municipality in Limpopo Province as a case study that is grounded on the Qualitative research approach. It is, furthermore, underpinned by Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Afrocentric theoretical assumptions. Sampled data was collected by interviewing 24 Northern Sotho participants in the Municipality and was thematically analysed through the transcription of those interviews. The findings revealed that Northern Sotho does not enjoy the status that the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996) has granted it. It recommends that this constitutional travesty be rectified by implementing the existing Language Policies as it erodes the identity of the marginalised speakers of the language.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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