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Example sentences for: fanagalo
How can you use “fanagalo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
But it is probably the attitudes revealed that already place these books in a bygone age: Arrival at the coast gives us I want to go ashore; carry my loads ; on safari there is Pitch all the white men's tents in line ; and Fanagalo phrases for golf include Move your shadow, Don't rattle the bag , and Have you caddied before?
Fanagalo, though hardly heard of in Europe, is used daily by thousands of people in southern Africa.
Swahili is the lingua franca of East Africa, but it has a lot in common with Fanagalo, and the two include many similar words.
The phrases employed to teach us Fanagalo are indicative of its origin: Who has stolen the venison?, The medicine will kill your intestinal worms, I told this boy he must not go underground, as he is drunk, Open the compressed air immediately , and so on.