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Kaaps
Pronunciation	[kɑːps]
Native to	South Africa (Western Cape)
Ethnicity	Cape Coloureds Cape Malays
Native speakers	3 - 4 million (estimate)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Weser-Rhine Germanic Low Franconian Dutch (Hollandic dialect) Kaaps
Early forms	Frankish Old Dutch Middle Dutch Modern Dutch
Official status
Official language in	South Africa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Kaaps (UK: /kɑːps/, meaning 'Cape'), also known as Afrikaaps, is a West Germanic African language that evolved in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It status as a sister language of Afrikaans or a dialect of Afrikaans is unclear. Since the early 2020s there as been significant increase in the number of works of literature published in Kaaps. Most works in Kaaps comes from authors located in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa.

References

1. ^ Hamans, Camiel (9 October 2021). "Kaaps, a language in its own right". ciplnet.com. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
2. ^ Coetzee, Olivia M. (2 November 2021). "This Language Called Kaaps: An Introduction". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
3. Dyers, Charlyn (2016). "The Conceptual Evolution in Linguistics: implications for the study of Kaaps". Multilingual Margins. 3 (2): 61–72 – via Research Gate.
4. Thamm, Marianne; Thamm, Marianne (28 October 2021). "AFRIKAANS LANGUAGE: An exhilarating linguistic minefield: Be duidelik and dala what you must". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
5. Supplied. "Kaaps, language of the Cape Flats working class, now has its very own dictionary". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
6. Hemmonsbey, Keanan (29 September 2021). "Kaaps: An old language embraced by a new generation". MatieMedia. Retrieved 28 September 2022.

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• Low Franconian languages
• Stress-timed languages
• Subject–object–verb languages
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