South African. = South African Dutch, n. 1, Cape Dutch n. (b) at cape, n.3 compounds 1b. Cf. Afrikaans, n. Now historical.

(a) South Africans of Dutch extraction regarded collectively; (b) the Dutch spoken in South Africa; also as adj.

The variety of Dutch spoken by early Dutch settlers in South Africa and their descendants; (in later use also occasionally) = Afrikaans, n. See also…

a derogatory term for: Cape Dutch, South African Dutch, or Afrikaans, as distinguished from standard (Netherlands) Dutch.

A language of southern Africa, and particularly of South Africa, a form of modified Dutch which evolved from the dialects of Dutch settlers in the…

= Afrikaans, n. rare.

The Dutch word for language, speech (de Nederlandsche taal, the Netherlands or Dutch language): in English, ‘the taal’, spec. applied to the Cape…