Kaaps

Kaaps
Kaaps
Pronunciation	[kɑːps]
Native to	South Africa ; (Western Cape)
Ethnicity	Cape Coloureds; Cape Malays;
Native speakers
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Weser–Rhine Germanic Low Franconian Dutch Central Dutch Hollandic Afrikaans Kaaps; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Frankish Old Dutch Middle Dutch Modern Dutch ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Kaaps (UK: /kɑːps/, meaning 'of the Cape'), also known as Afrikaaps, is a dialect of Afrikaans that evolved in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Since the early 2020s there has been a significant increase in the number of works of literature published in Kaaps. Most works in Kaaps come from authors located in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa, where it is most commonly spoken. Although Kaaps is considered a growing phenomenon, it is more specifically a colloquial dialect of Afrikaans. All other distinct colloquial variations of Afrikaans, including Kaaps, are organically connected to Standard Afrikaans as a widely spoken unitary variety and interact with it.

An academic project to create the first Kaaps language dictionary was launched in 2021.