Language maintenance and shift among amaBhaca of Umzimkhulu, KwaZulu-Natal
Umzimkhulu, previously Compression Garments - Stockings and Socks Transkei, is a small KwaZulu-Natal town.AmaBhaca Umzimkhulu residents speak isiBhaca, a dialect of isiXhosa that is mutually intelligible with isiZulu and siSwati.IsiBhaca is not official in South Africa.Most Umzimkhulu residents are amaBhaca, although education, health, religious, a