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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > South Africa > Gail

Gail

A language of South Africa

ISO 639-3gic

Population  No estimate available.
Region  Mainly Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein, and Port Elizabeth.
Dialects  In Johannesburg it is more English based, in Pretoria more Afrikaans [afr] based. Reportedly related to Polari [pld] in the United Kingdom.
Classification  Unclassified
Language use  20,000 L2 or L3 speakers. L1 is English or Afrikaans [afr].
Comments  An in-group language. Second language only.