• KAAPS, Woriboek / Woordeboek / Dictionary

KAAPS, Woriboek / Woordeboek / Dictionary

: Williams (Q.) et al comps. & eds.

R 345.00
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320pp., paperback, Heal the Hood Project, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9781037049460

 

A comprehensive dictionary of Kaaps, "an African language formed out of a slave lingua franca used among the indentured indigenous and enslaved populations in the Cape Colony."

Includes an introduction that describes how it was formed and creolised into a language through the use of Cape Dutch mixed with the phonological lexical variations of Arabic, Portuguese, Bahasa-Malay and Khoi and San languages, and later influenced by English and standard Afrikaans.

Text in Kaaps, Afrikaans and English.