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ISO 639-3 · flyfly

unclassified · creole or pidgin

Tsotsitaal

Tsotsitaal is a creole or pidgin, spoken in South Africa. Wikidata counts about 500,000 speakers.

9 · Second language onlyLatn500,000

Wikidata record Glottolog

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ISO 639-3: fly
Glottocode: tsot1242
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 9 Second language only
Wikipedia: 8 language editions

—first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

1countries

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9EGIDS level

Facts

Name	Tsotsitaal
Also called	Tsotsitaal language, Flaaitaal language
All speakers	500,000
Written in	Latin script
Kind	creole or pidgin

Vitality

EGIDS 9 Second language only9

Dormant or extinct. No fluent first-language speakers remain — EGIDS 9 and 10.

Other languages at this level

where it is spoken

Countries

South Africa30 languages in the index

Also spoken in South Africa

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · International panPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafe tamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · Provincial zulZuluNiger–Congo · 27.8 m1 · National xhoXhosaNiger–Congo · 19.2 m1 · National afrAfrikaansIndo-European · 7.2 m1 · National sotSesothoNiger–Congo · 6 m1 · National tsnTswanaNiger–Congo · 4.5 m1 · National nsoNorthern SothoNiger–Congo · 4.1 m1 · National tsoTsongaNiger–Congo · 4 m1 · National