Af·ri·kaans 
(ăf′rĭ-käns, -känz)
(ăf′rĭ-käns, -känz)n.
A language that developed from 17th-century Dutch and is an official language of South Africa. Also called Taal.
adj.
Of or relating to Afrikaans or Afrikaners.
[Afrikaans, from Dutch Afrikaansch, African, from Latin Āfricānus; see AFRIKANER.]