#isingqumo

Lavender linguistics refers to the unique way of communicating that LGBT+ communities around the world communicate with one another. This includes entire dialects and languages. These dialects and languages have sprung largely from the need to have conversations with others like us, or be able to more easily find others like us, while safeguarding the topics of our conversations from cis straight eavesdroppers. Some of the languages may be incomprehensible to speakers of the more commonly used languages in the surroundings. Some of them are like dril tweets - technically using the same language as unaware eavesdroppers, but if someone walked past and only gotten a snippet of it, there’s really no telling what they would assume the conversation is actually about. Some of them have only smaller dialect variations, usually euphemisms, nicknames for different things and activities. Each language and dialect of this nature has its own unique origins, grammar, and so on.

Here’s a list of just a few languages/dialects/accents/vocabulary sets and the briefest of details of who speaks them.

IsiNgqumo (South Africa) (via Bantu languages)

Gayle (South Africa) (via Afrikaans & English)

Hijra Farsi 

Swardspeak (Philippines) (also Manila Sound is a genre of music that uses it sometimes)

Bahasa Binan (Indonesia)

Polari (UK)