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Drawing on online and daily newspapers, speakers' language andwriting practices, official government documents and prescribed spelling systems inSouthern Africa, the paper explores the challenges and possibilities of orthographicreforms allowing for mobility across language clusters, ethnicity, regional andnational borders. I argue that this entails a different theorisation of language, and fororthographies that account for the translocations and diasporic nature of late modernAfrican identities and lifestyles. I suggest an ideological shift from prescriptivism topractice-orientated approaches to harmonisation in which orthographies are basedon descriptions of observable writing practices in the mobile linguistic universe.The argument for orthographic reforms is counterbalanced with an expose oncurrent language policies which appear designed for an increasing rare monoglot'standard' speaker, who speaks only a 'tribal' language. The implications of thephilosophical challenges this poses for linguists, language planners and policymakers are thereafter discussed.IS

Language policy and orthographic harmonization across linguistic, ethnic and national boundaries in Southern Africa