| LC control no. | sh 85148822 |
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| LC classification | PL8795 |
| Topical heading | Xhosa language |
| Variant(s) | isiXhosa language Xosa language |
| See also | Nguni languages South Africa--Languages |
| Found in | Wikipedia, accessed November 7, 2023: Kaffir (racial term) (Kaffir...is an exonym and an ethnic slur -- the use of it in reference to black people being particularly common in South Africa...It was eventually used, particularly in Afrikaans (Afrikaans: kaffer), for any black person during the Apartheid and Post-Apartheid eras, closely associated with South African racism, it became a pejorative by the mid-20th century and is now considered extremely offensive hate speech...it is now euphemistically addressed as the K-word in South African English) |
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