Though one must call it Dutch, it differs widely from the cultivated Dutch of Holland, having not only preserved some features of that language as spoken two centuries ago, but having adopted many Kafir or Hottentot words, and having become vulgarized into a dialect called the taal, which is almost incapable of expressing abstract thought or being a vehicle for any ideas beyond those of daily life.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
Except some of the men from the two Colonies, they could not speak the Boer taal, and had no means of communication, any more than they had social or moral affinities, with the folk of the land.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
About the close of the subsidence eruptions began which are continued to the present by such volcanoes as taal and Mayon in Luzon and Apo in Mindanao.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks