HOW WE SPEAK
Sep 20, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: ADAM HAUPT, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE FOR FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES, UCT PUBLISHED ORIGINALLY IN THE CONVERSATION.
It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town in South Africa, has never had a dictionary until now. The Trilingual Dictionary of Kaaps has been launched by a collective of academic and community stakeholders – the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, along with the hip hop-driven community NGO Heal the Hood Project. The dictionary, in Kaaps, English and Afrikaans, holds the promise of being a powerful democratic resource.
Adam Haupt, director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, is involved in the
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