South African Journal of African Languages

‘SS Mendi: Shaping the Nation’ in SEK Mqhayi’s Ukutshona kuka Mendi: The sinking of the Mendi (1922) and the Narrative of Catastrophe in Hilary Graham’s The Wreck of the Mendi (1994)

Zulu bird names: A progression over the decades (II) [Part two: The second hundred years, with Roberts, and Doke and Vilakazi]

Code-switching as a form of communication: Insights from a South African public hearing discussion

Celebrating traditional medical practice in the Shona novel Ndoitawo Zvakaita Vamwe

On solutions for the defects of Tshivenḓa practical orthography

The phonological structure of English borrowed words in Dagbani

Reflecting on the contexts of destination language learning

Lexical restructuring processes in Sheng among the Matatu crew in Nakuru, Kenya

‘A grass widow’s gendered narrative’: Renegotiating identities in Lauretta Ngcobo’s The prodigal daughter

Patriotic narratives on national leadership in Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) song texts, ca 2000–2017

Ukuvezwa ‘kwamagama emfashini’ ezingane zamaZulu esifundeni saseMkhanyakude

Diponagalo tša epiki ya Sesotho sa Leboa

An enhanced terminology development and management approach for South African languages

Portrayal of Yorùbá sociocultural heritage in the practice of the Kegite Movement in Nigerian tertiary institutions

Ubunkondlo ezihlabelelweni zamaNazaretha

Totemism: A symbolic representation of a clan with specific reference to the Basotho ba Leboa – An ethnographical approach

The impact of the contending segregation and Africanism ideologies on isiXhosa written poetry: 1912–1934

The augment in Tonga

Reconsidering Mqhayi’s literary canon in relation to his 19th and 20th century works

The psychodynamics of orality: Reflecting on protest songs during and after apartheid in South Africa

Interpreters’ treatment of questions during consecutively interpreted interactions in Zimbabwean courtrooms

Patriarchal attitudes in two selected isiXhosa literary texts

The sociology of language choice and multilingualism in Zimbabwe: Reflections on language choices by front office personnel in formal workplace discourse

Mother-tongue education in South Africa: A highly contested terrain of the 21st century

Glide formation is not motivated by onset requirement in Malawian Tonga, glide epenthesis is

Life-affirmation in Chirikure Chirikure’s ‘Europe Vakomana!’ and Greater Mhondera’s ‘Usatye Kani Africa!’

IsiZulu as an indigenous African language, and technology in the basic education sector in KwaZulu-Natal

A constitutional language name, lost in translation and its impact on the identity of the first language speakers

New-born baby naming practices of the Vhavenḓa: A sociolinguistic analysis perspective

‘Hayi, they don’t know Xhosa’: Comparative isiXhosa teaching challenges in the Eastern Cape and Gauteng

/mu/ and mu-reduction in Nyakyusa

Morphology of Zulu bird names: Old and new

Precipitation constructions in isiXhosa