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Elizabeth De Kadt
Some rural German-speaking communities in South Africa have maintained their minority languagefor the past 140 years. After a brief presentation of some salient aspects of theories of ethnicity, the paper seeks to analyze one such Community äs an ethnic group in terms of language, religion, culture, and values. The constitution ofboundaries within a broader Englishspeaking context, the maintenance and the crossing of such boundaries, and the r öle offamily and group histories are discussed. In a final section reasonsfor the survival of such ethnic groups in the South African context, and the specific r öle of language in this regard, are considered.
