Fanagalo or Fanakalo is a pidgin based on the Zulu, English, and Afrikaans languages. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in South Africa — and to a smaller extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Although it's used as a second language only, the number of speakers was estimated as "several hundred thousand" in 1975. Fanagalo is the only Zulu-based pidgin language, and is a rare example of a p… (More on Fanagalo)