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Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935
Bibliography: leaves 210-220.
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| author | Mathiesen, Kim Brereton |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/7856 Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935 Mathiesen, Kim Brereton Harries, Patrick Xhosa language Bibliography: leaves 210-220. This dissertation centres on the social history of the Xhosa language as it became codified into writing during the nineteenth century. My particular is interest is in why efforts were made to learn written Xhosa, and how the written form of the languages was used variously by travel writers, missionaries, converts, interpreters, indigenous speakers, the educated African elite, and professional philologists between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. The outcome of the uses to which the language was put was the construction of a standard form of the language. 2014-10-01T08:06:29Z 2014-10-01T08:06:29Z 2000 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7856 eng application/pdf Department of Historical Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Xhosa language Mathiesen, Kim Brereton Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935 |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935 |
| title_full | Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935 |
| title_fullStr | Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935 |
| title_short | Learning South African languages : the historical origins of standard Xhosa , and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c. 1770-1935 |
| title_sort | learning south african languages the historical origins of standard xhosa and the uses to which the written form of the language was put c 1770 1935 |
| topic | Xhosa language |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7856 |
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