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The Western Cape (Xhosa: iNtshona-Koloni; Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of 129,449 square kilometres (49,981 sq mi), and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020. [8]
Status of the language Western Cape (Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap) Province: Afrikaans is a co-official language, together with English and Xhosa [citation needed] City of Cape Town (Afrikaans: Stad Kaapstad) municipality: Afrikaans is a co-official language, together with English and Xhosa. Afrikaans is the mother tongue of half of the population ...
Its status as a sister language of Afrikaans [1] or a dialect of Afrikaans is unclear. [2] [3] Since the early 2020s there has been a significant increase in the number of works of literature published in Kaaps. [4] Most works in Kaaps come from authors located in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa, where it is most commonly spoken.
Tsotsitaal in its original form as "Flaaitaal" was based on Afrikaans, a colonial language derived from Dutch, which is the most widely spoken language in the western half of the country (Western and Northern Cape). Afrikaans is spoken as first language by approximately 61 percent of whites and 76 percent of Coloured people. [6]
Languages; Afrikaans, [2] ... Kaap Swartes) or Western Cape Blacks ... The modern distribution of the Khoisan languages spoken by Khoi and San peoples, ...
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 4] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Afrikaans, a language primarily descended from Dutch, is the mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. [9] According to the South African National Census of 2022, 10.6% of South Africans claimed to speak Afrikaans as a first language at home, making it the third most widely spoken home language in the country. [10]