taaln.
/tɑːl/, U.S. /tɑl/, South African English /tɑːl/ South African.
The Dutch word for language, speech (de Nederlandsche taal, the Netherlands or Dutch language): in English, ‘the taal’, spec. applied to the Cape Dutch, or Dutch patois spoken in South Africa.
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Dutch1731
Cape Dutch1826
South African Dutch1871
kitchen Dutch1880
Afrikaans1885
Afrikander1886
taal1896
1896 Westm. Gaz. 8 Jan. 8/1 He speaks the Taal better than a Hollander can, and can understand the Boers better.
1897 J. Bryce Impressions S. Afr. 480 It [Boer Dutch] differs widely from the cultivated Dutch of Holland,..having become vulgarised into a dialect called the Taal.
1897 J. Bryce Impressions S. Afr. 511 Except some of the men from Cape Colony, they could not speak the Boer Taal.
1900 Spectator 6 Oct. 460 One of the first results..was to establish the Taal, the Cape patois, as an official language.
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attributive and in other combinations.
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1898 Star (Johannesburg) 4 June Sundry clever and humorous volumes of taal-verse.
1901 Daily Chron. 22 July 5/3 An epitome of all the more unattractive qualities of the taal-speaking Dutch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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