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Revision as of 05:57, 23 January 2016

A term used to refer to a number of socio-cultural matters, all deriving from the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch in the 17th century.

(1) A people, the descendents of Dutch settlers, living in the Cape Colony[1].

(2) An architectural style found mostly in the Western Cape province of South Africa[2].

(3) A language or dialect of Dutch developed and spoken in the Cape Colony in the 18th and 19th centuries by descendents of the Dutch settlers as well as their slaves and servants. During the 19th century this would evolve into the South African language called Afrikaans. (See Afrikaans)

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Dutch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Dutch_architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

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