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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of straat + taal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstraː.taːl/
- Hyphenation: straat‧taal
Noun
straattaal f (plural straattalen, diminutive straattaaltje n)
- (chiefly Netherlands) youth slang; in particular a youth slang spoken in the cities and larger towns of the Randstad, characterised by borrowings from English and immigrant languages such as Sranan Tongo and Maghrebin Arabic
- (chiefly Belgium) community language, the lingua franca that people use in everyday interactions
- (derogatory) vulgar language, language containing a lot of vulgaraties and invectives
- (archaic) vernacular