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Preferred term

fngFanagalo  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Fanagalo Fanakalo is a pidgin (simplified language) based primarily on Zulu, with English and a small Afrikaans input. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in South Africa and to a lesser extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Although it is used as a second language only, the number of speakers was estimated as "several hundred thousand" in 1975. As with India, once the British went, English became the lingua franca enabling different tribes in the same country to communicate with each other, and Fanagalo use declined.

ISO 639-3 code

  • fng

In other languages

  • Fanagalo

    Afrikaans

  • Fanagalo jezik

    Croatian

  • Fanagalo

    Esperanto

  • Fanakalo

    German

  • Fanagalo

    Italian

  • Lenga fanagalo

    Piedmontese

  • Língua fanagalo

    Portuguese

  • Фанагало

    Russian

  • Fanagalo

    Swedish

  • Fanakalo

    Venetian

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fng

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