Media: South African Pidgin Threatened by Language Policy
Fanagalo, the pidgin based on Zulu and English, is spoken in a very specialized environment: it is considered the lingua franca of mines in South Africa. Despite the fact that it is spoken and embraced by 'hundreds of thousands of people' that comprise 36% of the mining workforce, it is already facing opposition from management that wants to enforce English or Xhosa as the language of communication.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/04/us-safrica-mines-language-idUSBRE8330FT20120404
|Date Posted:||April 04, 2012|