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Understanding Johannesburg burg Zulu:
Joburg Zulu is the Zulu dialect spoken in Johannesburg and surrounding areas. This variant diverges slightly from the dialects spoken in KZN, and a huge part of the divergence is due to major (Southern) Ndebele and Swati influences, with Sotho, Afrikaans, and isiXhosa also contributing to this dialect.
When Johannesburg was rising due to the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand, mines needed workers, and many Black natives availed themselves for this job. Multiple hostels were set up which housed Black miners and many of those miners came from KZN, Lesotho, Free State, eSwatini, Eastern Cape, and Mozambique mixing with Transvaal native Tswana, Pedi, and Ndebele groups. Nguni peoples, particularly Zulus, outnumbered the other groups in the hostels.
Fanagalo essentially was the precursor to the new Joburg Zulu variant - sort of a prototype of the incoming multiethnic language. Joburg Zulu did not start during the Sophiatown era, but rather developed in the late 19th century when the Witwatersrand mines were heavily connected - combining mines from as far as Nigel with mines that were located in the west of Johannesburg. People would travel between these areas - some moving from one mine to another increasing the population of the PWV (Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging) and spreading the newly developed creole culture that was born in these mining hostels.
In later years, the language would develop regional variants, with the eastern variant (East Rand Zulu) getting even more Swati and Ndebele influence, and the western (Soweto, Alexandra, etc.) and southern variants (Vereeniging) getting more Sotho and Tswana influences. All the variants do still share a lot of the Ndebele, Sotho, and Swati influences, but the different influences are felt much more strongly in some areas than others. isiXhosa, Afrikaans, and English words are shared across all variants, i.e. muur (wall), Vestera (window), Bulisa (greet), emva (behind), kuva (to hear) and more.
Ndebele influences:
Kawosi, Khabo/Kibo,bebahamba, ukukhamba, usesemncane, Phasi, Phosa, intloko etc.
Sotho:
Marago, Tswayi, Pona Pona, Voiceless velar fricative (kg sound) etc.
Xhosa:
Kawosi, Intloko, bulisa, izibunu, cima, uyayiva, emva, intombazana, etc.
Swati:
Coca, canda, cala, ceda, chubeka and other overlaps with Nbebele
Videos:
1 Joburg Zulu speaker
2 KZN Zulu speaker
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