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African Englishes

African Englishes is the plural of African English.

Meaning of African English

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.

Questions about African Englishes

What is African Englishes the plural of?
African Englishes is the plural of African English.

Words near African Englishes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: African Englishes (page history and authors); 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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