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Toe die Kaap in 1795 &#8216;n Britse kolonie geword het, was Afrikaans dus die spreektaal en Nederlands die skryf- taal.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-middel-1800-s-eerste-afrikaanse-boeke-verskyn\">Middel 1800&#8217;s: Eerste Afrikaanse boeke verskyn <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Selfs in die vroe\u00eb 1800&#8217;s was geskrewe Afrikaans nog skaars en tekste in Afrikaans was tot briewe en artikels in koerante beperk.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van die middel van die 1800&#8217;s sou hierdie situasie egter verander.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die Kaapse Moslemgemeenskap het &#8216;n baie belangrike rol vervul om die vroe\u00eb Afrikaans op te teken. Die eerste gepubliseerde Afrikaanse teks in boekvorm was die godsdienstige boek Gablomatiem van 1856. Dit was in Kaaps-Hollands in Arabiese skrif geskryf \u2013 nie in Romeinse skrif nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ses jaar later (in 1862) het L.H.\u2009Meurant se Zamenspraak tusschen Klaas Waarzegger en Jan Twyfelaar verskyn. 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