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New book sparks a debate about the staying power of english. Fanakalo is a southern african pidgin whose main lexifier is zulu, a nonindoeuropean language, and whose genesis lies with europeans as imperfect learners and africans as superstrate speakers in the 19th ce. Wikivoyage users have collectively created a free russian phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to get by while traveling in areas where russian is spoken wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Fanagalo fanagalo is a pidgin based primarily on zulu, with english and a small afrikaans input.
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