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African English

African English proper noun: the set of English language varieties spoken across sub-Saharan Africa that have developed their own distinct phonological, grammatical, lexical, and pragmatic features through contact between English and local African languages.

Proper noun

African English (plural African Englishes)

  1. The set of English language varieties spoken across sub-Saharan Africa that have developed their own distinct phonological, grammatical, lexical, and pragmatic features through contact between English and local African languages.

Forms of African English

pluralAfrican Englishes

Questions about African English

What does African English mean?
African English means the set of English language varieties spoken across sub-Saharan Africa that have developed their own distinct phonological, grammatical, lexical, and pragmatic features through contact between English and local African languages.
What part of speech is African English?
African English is a proper noun.

Words near African English in the dictionary

  1. African dwarf sawsharks
  2. African elephant
  3. African elephants
  4. African emerald cuckoo
  5. African emerald cuckoos
  6. African English
  7. African Englishes
  8. African Eve
  9. African Eves
  10. African fish eagle
  11. African forest elephant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: African English (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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