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Name: Fanagalo
Type: Language
Alternate Names: "Fanakalo"; "Fanekolo"; "Kitchen Kaffir"; "Mine Kaffir"; Piki; Isipiki; "Isikula"; Lololo; Isilololo; Pidgin Bantu; Basic Zulu; Silunguboi; Silunguboi.
Spoken in: South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Number of speakers: Several hundred thousand in South Africa (1975 Reinecke). Population total all countries: 5,100 (Ethnologue)
Code: fng
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Pidgins and Creoles
Parent Subgroup: Zulu based (azbp)
Child Dialects: Chilapalapa (fng-chi) Cikabanga (fng-cik)

Endangerment Status

Ethnologue Status: Second language only
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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