Gayle language
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gayle-language-174-16904718
title:
Gayle language
text:
Gayle, or Gail, is an English- and Afrikaans-based gay argot or slang used primarily by English and Afrikaans-speaking homosexual men in urban communities of South Africa, and is similar in some respects to Polari in the United Kingdom, from which some lexical items have been borrowed. The equivalent language used by gay South African men who speak Bantu languages is called IsiNgqumo, and is based on a Nguni lexicon. Gayle originally manifested as moffietaal in the drag culture of the Cape Colou
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
South African gay slang
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_language
date created:
2004-12-08T13:35:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:12:15Z
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