tsotsitaal

English

Etymology

From tsotsi (“South African street gangster”) + Afrikaans taal (“language”).

Noun

tsotsitaal (countable and uncountable, plural tsotsitaals)

  1. (linguistics) Any of a variety of mixed languages spoken mainly in the townships of South Africa.
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