De Klerk, W.J.2022-05-232022-05-2319821982-12*https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85620Dissertation (MA (Afrikaans en Nederlands))--University of South Africa, 1982.The thesis was donated to the University of Pretoria's Department of Library Services.English: In this study different aspects concerning the dialect of the Buys' of Mara are discussed. The first chapter gives the historical background of the Buys group. The second chapter deals with the question of how the contact with different language groups, as set out in the first chapter, could have led to language change. Inthe third chapter, the language change that has taken place as a result of contact with other language groups, is discussed. In the fourth chapter, linguistic phenomena that can not be ascribed to contact with Bantu languages are discussed and in the last chapter the possibilities of the survival of the Buys dialect are examined.Afrikaans: Hierdie studie is TI dialektologiese ondersoek waar ingegaan word op verskillende aspekte van die dialek wat die Buyse van Mara praat. In die eerste hoofstuk word die historiese agtergrond van hierdie dialek bespreek. In die tweede hoofstuk word besin oor hoe die verskillende kontaksituasies wat in hoofstuk een beskryf is, tot taalwisseling gelei het. Die taalwisseling wat uit kontaksituasies met Bantoetaalsprekers spruit, word in die derde hoofstuk bespreek. Die vierde hoofstuk beskryf taalverskynsels wat nie aan die invloed van Bantoetale toegeskryf kan word nie, en in die slothoofstuk word besin oor die dialek se kanse op voortbestaan.Afrikaans© 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.UCTDDissertation