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Fanagalo

/ ˈæəɡəəʊ /

noun

  1. (in South Africa) a Zulu-based pidgin with English and Afrikaans components, esp associated with the mines
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of Fanagalo1

C20: from Fanagalo fana go lo , literally: to be like this; compare Zulu fand to be like, ka-lo of this
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Few spoke English, and the lingua franca was an amalgam of many tongues known as Fanagalo.

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His first language was Fanagalo.

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Hustling over to a crowd of waiting Africans, he waved his fly whisk, made from a wildebeest's tail, and shouted in Fanagalo, the language of the South African gold mines, "Kamuzu is glad to be here."

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