Gail

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A language of South Africa

ISO 639-3
gic
User Population

20,000, all users. L1 users: No known L1 speakers. L2 users: 20,000. Ethnic population: No ethnic community.

Location

Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and Western Cape provinces; mainly urban settings: Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria.

Language Status

9 (Second language only).

Classification
Unclassified
Dialects

None known. In Johannesburg more English based, in Pretoria more Afrikaans [afr] based. May be related to Polari [pld] in the United Kingdom.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Gail
Other Comments

An in-group language.