Fanagalo

Fanakalo
Pidgin Zulu
Region Southern Africa-KwaZulu-Natal
Native speakers
None



Several hundred thousand L2 speakers each in South Africa and Zimbabwe (1975)[1]
Dialects
  • Chilapalapa
  • Zulu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 fng
Glottolog fana1235
S40A[2]
Linguasphere 99-AUT-fh

Fanagalo, mà ọ bụ Fanakalo, bụ asụsụ obodo mà ọ bụ pidgin dabere ná Zulu ná ntinye sitere ná Bekee ná obere ntinye Afrikaans.[3] Á na-eji yá eme ìhè dị kà asụsụ, ọkachasị ná ụlọ ọrụ na-egwupụta ọlaedo, diamond, coal ná ọla kọpa ná South Africa ná ruo n'ókè dị àlà ná Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, ná Zimbabwe. Ọ bụ ezie ná á na-eji ya eme Ìhè dị kà asụsụ nkè abụọ naanị, e mere atụmatụ ná ọnụ ọgụgụ ndị na-asụ yá dị kà "ọtụtụ narị puku" ná 1975. Ka ọ na-erule oge nnwere onwe bịara mà ọ bụ n'ihe banyere South Africa, ikike ntụli áká zuru ụwa ọnụ nke Bekee aghọwo nke a na-asụ n'ọtụtụ ebe mà ghọta ná ọ ghọrọ asụsụ á na-ahụkarị, na-enyere agbụrụ dị iche iche nọ n'otu mbà ahụ áká iso ibé há kwurịta okwu, ná ojiji Fanakalo adaala.

  1. Fanagalo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Mesthrie (2007). "Differentiating Pidgin from Early Interlanguage – A Comparison of Pidgin Nguni (Fanakalo) and Interlanguage Varieties of Xhosa and Zulu" (in en). Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 25: 75–89. DOI:10.2989/16073610709486447. 

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