Religious and Secular Cape Malay Afrikaans: Literary Varieties Used by Shaykh Hanif Edwards (1906-1958)  

Oleh:

Stell, Gerald ; Rakiep, Muttaqin ; Luffin, Xavier

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bijdragen Tot de Taal Land En Volkenkunde vol. 163 no. 02/03 (2007), page 289-325.
Topik: Cape Malay Afrikaans; Religious
Fulltext: B10 v163 n2-3 th2007 p289, win.pdf (771.85KB)

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In the context of the White and Christian-dominated Afrikaans language movements, followed by apartheid, little attention has been paid to an Afrikaans literary variety used among Muslim Cape Coloureds, a group often referred to as ‘Cape Malays’. Descending mainly from Asian slaves brought by the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC, Dutch East India Company), and bearing the marks of cohabitation with non-Asian populations at the Cape, the Cape Malays at an early stage developed a distinct religious culture through their adherence to Islam, as well as a distinct Cape Dutch linguistic identity through their connections with the Dutch East Indies and the Islamic world. These cultural idiosyncrasies found expression in a local literature, religious and (more rarely) secular, using as a medium a variety of Cape Dutch/Afrikaans written either in the Arabic alphabet or in the Roman alphabet.

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