Dyers, Charlyn13/02/201413/02/20142008Dyers, C. (2008). Language shift or maintenance? Factors determining the use of Afrikaans among some township youth in South Africa. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 38: 49-721027-34172223-9936https://hdl.handle.net/10566/1012To investigate how high school learners in a township school in South Africa report on their use of, and attitudes toward, their first language, Afrikaans; and to use the findings to show how, given their particular situation, the language continues to be strongly maintained in this community, and remains an important index of both their group and individual identity.en� 2008 Dyers; licensee University of Stellenbosch. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Language shiftMaintenanceHigh school learnersAfrikaans first languageSouth AfricaArticle