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South Africa is a culturally and ethnically diverse country with twelve official languages and a population known for its multilingualism. Mixing languages in everyday conversations, social media interactions, and musical compositions is a common practice. South African slang is a hybrid linguistic code that has been shaped by centuries of migration, and integration. This informal language includes phonetic and lexical elements from indigenous Khoi languages, and input from Dutch, English, French, and German settlers. It also includes contributions from the Cape Malay community. There has also been some borrowing from indigenous African languages, particularly Zulu and Xhosa, Contemporary South African colloquial speech is an archive of these various languages The list provided below outlines frequently used terms and phrases used in South Africa. This compilation also includes borrowed slang from neighboring countries such as Botswana, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Lesotho, and Namibia. Additionally, it may encompass linguistic elements from Eastern African nations like Mozambique and Zimbabwe based on the United Nations geoscheme for Africa.