Camtho
A language of South Africa
| Population | No estimate available. |
| Region | Soweto, Johannesburg, urban settings. |
| Alternate names | Iscamtho, Isicamtho |
| Dialects | A development in the 1980s from the original Tsotsitaal [fly], and sometimes called ‘Tsotsitaal’. Also described as a basically Zulu [zul] or Sotho language with heavy codeswitching and many English and Afrikaans [afr] content morphemes. |
| Classification | Mixed language, Zulu-Bantu |
| Language use | Mainly used by young people. |
| Comments | Second language only. |
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