Fanagalo
Sign in to saveFanagalo, or Fanakalo, is a vernacular or pidgin based primarily on Zulu with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans. 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. By the time independence came–or in the case of South Africa, universal suffrage–English had become sufficiently widely spoken and understood
Key facts
- Language.name
- Fanagalo
- Language.nativename
- Pidgin Zulu
- Language.region
- Southern Africa-All mining regions of South Africa
- Language.speakers
- L1: none
- Language.ref
- e25
- Language.speakers2
- L2 speakers: 5,000 (2022)
- Language.speakers_label
- Speakers
- Language.family
- Pidginisation of Zulu
- Language.dia1
- Chilapalapa
- Language.dia2
- Zulu
- Language.familycolor
- Pidgin
- Language.iso3
- fng
- Language.glotto
- fana1235
- Language.glottorefname
- Fanagalo
- Language.guthrie
- S40A
- Language.lingua
- 99-AUT-fh
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Bhrosha
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels and syllabic consonants
- Grammar
- Verbs
- Noun Pluralisation
- Interrogatives
- Language features and variants
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Fanagalo, or Fanakalo, is a vernacular or pidgin based primarily on Zulu with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans. 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. By the time independence came–or in the case of South Africa, universal suffrage–English had become sufficiently widely spoken and understood that it became the lingua franca, enabling different ethnic groups in the same country to communicate with each other, and Fanagalo use declined.
== Etymology == The name "Fanagalo" comes from strung-together Nguni forms meaning "like + of + that" and has the meaning "do it like this", reflecting its use as a language of instruction. Other spellings of the name include and . It is also known as or or , and .
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