• Berbice Creole Dutch (also known as Berbice Dutch) is a now extinct Dutch creole language, once spoken in Berbice, a region along the Berbice River in...
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    A Dutch creole is a creole language that has been substantially influenced by the Dutch language. Most Dutch-based creoles originated in Dutch colonies...
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  • Americas: Berbice Creole Dutch, formerly spoken in the Berbice region of Guyana; extinct as of 2005 with the death of Bertha Bell. Jersey Dutch, formerly...
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    Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 and 1815...
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  • extinct Dutch-based creole language of Guyana, spoken in the region of Essequibo. It was not mutually intelligible with Berbice Creole Dutch, also spoken...
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  • creole) Oorlams Creole Atlantic Caribbean (Dutch West Indies) Negerhollands (extinct) (US Virgin Islands) South America Guyanas Berbice Creole Dutch (extinct)...
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    Berbice in Guyana it largely died out, however many words and phrases from the dialect were incorporated into the Guyanese English Creole of Berbice....
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  • Nigeria's oil industry in the Port Harcourt region." Berbice Creole Dutch, a recently extinct Dutch Creole formerly spoken in Eastern Guyana, was spoken by...
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    to creole languages which respond unexpectedly to one of McWhorter's three features (for example, inflectional morphology in Berbice Creole Dutch, tone...
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    Islands) Dutch (official language of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, and Suriname) Haitian Creole (official language of Haiti)...
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  • Below is a list of Ijaw language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019). Berbice Creole Dutch, an extinct creole spoken in Guyana, had a...
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    brotherhood. Bargoens Dutch Braille Dutch grammar Dutch Language Union Dutch literature Dutch name Dutch orthography Dutch-based creole languages Flemish French...
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  • Negerhollands ('Negro-Dutch') was a Dutch-based creole language that was spoken in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands. Dutch was its superstrate...
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    Nigeria. Nigerian Pidgin – an English-based creole – is spoken by over 60 million people. The major native languages, in terms of population, are Hausa (over...
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    The Guianas (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    Amerindian Tiriyó language. Extinct creole languages in the Guianas are Skepi Creole Dutch and Berbice Creole Dutch, both based on Dutch and spoken in Guyana...
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  • Lexifier (category Pidgins and creoles)
    Spanish-based creole languages, such as: Chavacano Palenquero Dutch is the lexifier of Dutch-based creole languages, such as: Negerhollands Berbice Dutch Creole Zulu...
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    in Suriname; Berbice an extinct language in Guyana; Pecok spoken but in danger of extinction in Indonesia and the Netherlands; Albany Dutch spoken but in...
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    When the Dutch arrived in Ceylon, Portuguese was a recognized language in the occupied areas of the island. It was, however, a Portuguese creole due to...
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    estimated 60% of the population speak Dutch as a native language. Sranan Tongo, an English-based creole language, is a widely used lingua franca. Most...
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    Guyana (category Countries and territories where English is an official language)
    wrote an account in 1596, the Dutch were the first Europeans to establish colonies: Pomeroon (1581), Essequibo (1616), Berbice (1627), and Demerara (1752)...
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    Demerara (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    in 1783, restored these territories to the Dutch. The British recaptured Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice in 1796. A deal was struck with the colony:...
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    A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Kouwenburg, Silvia (2012). "The Ijo‑derived Lexicon of Berbice Dutch Creole: An A‑typical...
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    of the languages of Papiamentu, Dutch, English, and Spanish.[citation needed] The most widely spoken language is Papiamentu, a Portuguese creole with African...
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    colonized by the Dutch. Dutch is Suriname's official language. Owing to its diverse population, it has also developed a creole language, Sranan Tongo. Suriname...
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    British Guiana (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle there, starting in the early 17th century, when they founded the colonies of Essequibo and Berbice, adding...
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    15% of the population — around two thirds use the creole language of Papiamentu as their main language. In January 2024 the insular council of Bonaire passed...
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    African languages with a strong admixture of Dutch, plus subsequent lexical contributions from Spanish and English. An English-based creole dialect,...
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    Essequibo (colony) (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    became a British colony in 1815 until Demerara-Essequibo was merged with Berbice to form the colony of British Guiana in 1831. In 1838, it became a county...
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    hundreds of native languages are used, and Malay or Portuguese Creole, the existing languages of trade, were adopted. Prior to 1870, when Dutch colonial influence...
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  • Lutsi Language". lutsimaa.lv. Retrieved 25 December 2020. "Language Log". "Berbice Dutch officially extinct". Radio Netherlands Worldwide. February 25...
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