Fanakalo
/ˌfanaɡaˈlɒ
/ /ˈfanaɡalɒ/(also Fanagalo)
noun [mass noun] South African
A lingua franca developed and used by the southern African mining companies, composed of frequently corrupted elements of the Nguni languages, English, and Afrikaans.I know there's a huge debate around Fanakalo as a language but mineworkers use it....
- Fanakalo is a linguistic manifestation of the polarisation between authority and subservience, consisting entirely of a set of commands and responses.
Origin
1940s: from Nguni fana ka lo, from fana 'be like' + the possessive suffix -ka + lo 'this'.
- anxious
- anxiously
- anxiousness
- any
- any amount of
- anybody
- anybody's guess
- anybody's (or anyone's) guess
- any day
- anyhoo
- anyhow
- any minute (or at any minute)
- any moment (or at any moment)
- anymore
- any more (also anymore)
- any number of
- any old
- any old how
- anyone
- anyone's game
- any other business
- anyplace
- any port in a storm
- any road (up)
- anything