Sandton, Linksfield or Victory Park) may have accents influenced by Yiddish or Hebrew ancestry. South African English accent, across the spectrum, is non-rhotic. Examples of South African accents (obtained from http://accent.gmu.edu) Native English: Male (Cape Town, South Africa) Native English: Female (Cape Town, South Africa) Native English: Male (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) Native English: Male (Nigel, South Africa) Afrikaans (Primary): Female (Pretoria, South Africa) Afrikaans (Primary): Male (Pretoria, South Africa) Afrikaans (Primary): Male (Pretoria, South Africa) Northern Sotho (Primary): Female (Polokwane, South Africa) Additional samples of South African accents and dialects can be found at http://web.ku.edu/~idea/africa/southafrica/southafrica.htm Regardless of regional and ethnic differences (in accents), South African English accent is sometimes confused with Australian (or New Zealand) English by British and American English speakers. Zimbabwe In Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, native English speakers (mainly the white and Coloured minority) have a similar speech pattern to that of South Africa. Hence those with high degrees of Germanic inflection would pronounce 'Zimbabwe' as zim-bah-bwi, as opposed to the African pronunciation zeem-bah-bweh. Zimbwabwean accents also vastly vary, with some Black Africans sounding British while others will have a much stronger accent influenced by their mother tongues, usually this distinction is brought about by where speakers grew up and the school attended. For example, most people that grew up in and around Harare have a British sounding accent while those in the rural areas have a more "pidgin-english" sort of accent Example of a Zimbabwean English accent (obtained from http://accent.gmu.edu) Shona (Primary): Female (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) Namibia Namibian English tends to be strongly influenced by South African English. Most Namibians that grew up in and around the capital city (Windhoek) have developed an English accent while those in the rural areas have an accent strongly influenced by their mother tongue particularly Bantu languages. Nigeria Nigerian English varies by constituent units. The accents are influenced by the various mother tongues of the Nigerian constituent units. Asia India and South Asia A number of distinct dialects of English are spoken in South Asia. There are many languages spoken in South Asia like Nepali, Hindi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Balochi, Pashto, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Marathi, Odia, Maithili, Malayalam, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu, Urdu and many more, creating a variety of accents of English. Accents originating in this part of the world tend to display several distinctive features, including: syllable-timing, in which a roughly equal time is allocated to each