Tsotsitaal
A language of South Africa
| Population | Had tens of thousands of primary users; hundreds of thousands of L2 users (Gilbert and Makhudu 1984). |
| Region | Gauteng Province, Johannesburg area, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and other cities. |
| Alternate names | Flaai Taal, Fly Taal |
| Dialects | Not intelligible to Afrikaans [afr]. Used many Afrikaans, English, Bantu words, and others of unknown origin. |
| Classification | Creole, Afrikaans based |
| Language use | Originated in gold mines in Transvaal from 1886. Creolized by 1930. Used until the 1970s or 1980s. |
| Comments | ‘Tsotsitaal’ means ‘speech of young gang member, criminal, or thug’. Nearly extinct. |
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