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...subcontinent are spoken in the Asian communities. In West Africa, forms of creole (Krio) and pidgin are widespread in the coast towns of very heterogeneous ethnic composition. In southern Africa, Fanagalo, a mixture of English and local Bantu tongue (notably Zulu), is still spoken in some mining areas.
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