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Preferred term

gicGail  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Gayle, or Gail, is an English and Afrikaans-based gay argot or cant 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 homosexual South African men who speak Bantu languages is called IsiNgqumo, and is based on a Nguni lexicon.

Entry terms

  • Gayle language

ISO 639-3 code

  • gic

Notation

  • gic

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URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gic

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