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<div style="font-size:1.05em; line-height:1.6; max-width:36em; margin-top:0.9em;">A free, open knowledge base about Kaaps: its words and grammar, its history, and the people and communities who speak it. Anyone can read it, and anyone who knows Kaaps can help write it.</div> | <div style="font-size:1.05em; line-height:1.6; max-width:36em; margin-top:0.9em;">A free, open knowledge base about Kaaps: its words and grammar, its history, and the people and communities who speak it. Anyone can read it, and anyone who knows Kaaps can help write it.</div> | ||
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<div style="flex:1 1 300px;">The Kaaps Wiki is an initiative of the [https://www.uwc.ac.za/ University of the Western Cape].<br />For more on the wider work to develop and promote Kaaps, visit the [https://sakaaps.co.za/ Society for the Advancement of Kaaps].</div> | <div style="flex:1 1 300px;">The Kaaps Wiki is an initiative of the [https://www.uwc.ac.za/ University of the Western Cape].<br />For more on the wider work to develop and promote Kaaps, visit the [https://sakaaps.co.za/ Society for the Advancement of Kaaps].</div> | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:51, 21 September 2026
An initiative of the University of the Western Cape
Kaaps Wiki
Bivôdi Kaaps in Syt Afrieka ên vêdi
A free, open knowledge base about Kaaps: its words and grammar, its history, and the people and communities who speak it. Anyone can read it, and anyone who knows Kaaps can help write it.
About this wiki
O ôs
Kaaps is the language of millions of people across the Western Cape and beyond, spoken at home, on the street, in music, poetry and theatre. For a long time it was treated as "slang" or as a lesser form of Afrikaans. It is a language in its own right, with its own history, vocabulary and ways of speaking.
The Kaaps Wiki is an initiative of the University of the Western Cape (UWC). It brings together research, community knowledge and everyday language in one open place, so that Kaaps can be documented, taught and celebrated by the people who speak it.
On this wiki you can look up words and expressions, learn how Kaaps grammar and spelling work, read about the language's history, and add what you know.
The wiki so far
1 articles
41 edits
2 active contributors
41 edits
2 active contributors
Quick links
Explore Kaaps
Ôsi wêk
The dictionary: words, meanings, pronunciation and example sentences.
How Kaaps works: sounds, spelling, word forms and sentence structure.
Where the language comes from, and how it has been shaped over centuries.
Stories and memories recorded in Kaaps-speaking communities.
Bilingual and trilingual teaching resources for classrooms and learners.
Music, poetry, theatre, film and the language of everyday life.
Help build the wiki
Djoin ôs
Every speaker of Kaaps knows something worth writing down. Here's how to start:
- Create an account so your edits are credited to you.
- Read the style guide for how we spell and format Kaaps words.
- Pick a page from pages we still need, or add a word you know to the Kaaps Woriboek.
Not sure where to begin? Ask a question on the community portal.
The Kaaps Wiki is an initiative of the University of the Western Cape.
For more on the wider work to develop and promote Kaaps, visit the Society for the Advancement of Kaaps.
For more on the wider work to develop and promote Kaaps, visit the Society for the Advancement of Kaaps.