Tsotsitaal and Camtho
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Tsotsitaal and Camtho
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Tsotsitaal is a South African vernacular dialect derived from a variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province, but also in other agglomerations all over South Africa. Tsotsi is a Sesotho, Pedi or Tswana slang word for a "thug" or "robber" or "criminal", possibly from the verb "ho lotsa" "to sharpen", whose meaning has been modified in modern times to include "to con"; or from the tsetse fly, as the language was first known as Flytaal, although flaai also means "co
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Variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsotsitaal_and_Camtho
date created:
2006-02-17T15:28:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T23:21:01Z
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