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    Eastern Maroon Creole, or Nenge is a creole language of Suriname and French Guiana, spoken by the Ndyuka people. The speakers are one of six Maroon peoples...
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  • Ndyuka may refer to: Ndyuka language, a creole language of Suriname, spoken by the Ndyuka people Ndyuka people, a Maroon ethnic group who live in the...
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    and one of the Maroon peoples in French Guiana. The Aukan or Ndyuka speak the Ndyuka language. They are subdivided into the Opu, who live upstream of the...
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  • Afaka syllabary (category Ndyuka language)
    Ndyuka language, an English-based creole of Suriname. The script is named after its inventor, Afáka Atumisi. It continues to be used to write Ndyuka in...
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  • Kwinti is an English-based creole of Suriname closely related to Ndyuka. The language has less than 300 speakers, and split from Plantation Creole which...
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    The Guianas (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Panare language and Spanish; and Ndyuka-Tiriyó Pidgin, a pidgin spoken in Suriname until the 1960s formed between the creole Ndyuka language and the...
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    Mande languages Surinamese Creoles (Sranan Tongo, Ndyuka language, Saramaccan language) Krio language Basilectal Western Caribbean creole languages (Jamaican...
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    Ghanaians (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
    Suriname and west of French Guiana and speak the Ndyuka language, a sub-language of the Akan language. They were shipped as imported labourers slaves from...
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    Granman (Ndyuka language: gaanman) is the title of the paramount chief of a Maroon nation in Suriname and French Guiana. The Ndyuka, Saramaka, Matawai...
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  • Pidgin (redirect from Pidgin language)
    Lingua Franca (Sabir) Mekeo pidgins Mobilian Jargon Namibian Black German Ndyuka-Tiriyó Pidgin Nefamese Nigerian Pidgin (creolized) Nootka Jargon Pidgin...
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  • Ndyuka-Tiriyó Pidgin (Ndyuka-Trio) was a trade language used until the 1960s between speakers of Ndyuka, an English-based creole, and Tiriyó and Wayana...
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    forbidden by law. They were also forced to speak Dutch; education in their own language, Sranan Tongo, was forbidden; and children were not allowed to speak Sranan...
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    Paramaccan people (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    the Ndyuka and Kwinti, and mutually intelligible with Sranan Tongo. Paramaccan is the youngest of the Surinamese pidgin languages. The language had an...
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    Surinamese Maroons (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Marowijne River, Kwinti at the Coppename River, Matawai at the Saramacca River, Ndyuka (or Aukan) at the Marowijne and Commewijne Rivers Paamaka (Paramaccan) at...
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    Aluku (redirect from Aluku language)
    District in Suriname. They were initially called Cottica-Maroons. In 1760, the Ndyuka people who lived nearby, signed a peace treaty with the colonists offering...
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    The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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  • Aukan may refer to: Aukan, Burma Ndyuka people, who are also called "Aukan" Ndyuka language, also called "Aukan" This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • An English-based creole language (often shortened to English creole) is a creole language for which English was the lexifier, meaning that at the time...
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  • Atlantic slave trade, Akan languages were introduced to the Caribbean and South America, notably in Suriname, spoken by the Ndyuka, and in Jamaica, spoken...
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  • distinct languages. The first wordlist of Tiriyó was compiled by Jules Crevaux in 1882, consisting of 31 entries including two sentences in Ndyuka-Tiriyó...
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  • List of constructed scripts (category Constructed languages)
    Middle-Earth, Houghton Mifflin, 1989 "Unker Non-Linear Writing System". s.ai. Retrieved 2023-08-23. Constructed scripts and languages at omniglot.com...
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  • such as Sranan and Ndyuka. It is also more purely Akan than regular Patois, with little to no contribution from other African languages. Today, the Maroon...
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  • Syllabary (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    languages of eastern Asia, the English-based creole language Ndyuka, Xiangnan Tuhua, and the ancient language Mycenaean Greek (Linear B). In addition, the undecoded...
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  • music genre Djuka, archaic spelling of the Ndyuka language of Suriname Djuka, archaic spelling of the Ndyuka people of Suriname Djuka (Đuka) can be a nickname...
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  • spoken in Guyana Jamaican Patois, English-based creole, spoken in Jamaica Ndyuka, English-based creole spoken in Suriname, the only creole that uses its...
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    The languages of the Caribbean reflect the region's diverse history and culture. There are six official languages spoken in the Caribbean: Spanish (official...
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  • primarily along the Maroni River. The main Maroon groups are the Saramaka, Ndyuka (both of whom also live in Suriname), and Boni (Aluku). The Maroons are...
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    creoles (Sranan, Ndyuka and Jamaican Maroon), despite the heavy percentage of Portuguese origin words. Other English creole languages of Suriname, such...
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  • (Saramacca–Upper Suriname regions) Surinamese and French Guianese Maroons Aluku Ndyuka (Aukan, Eastern Maroon Creole), in Suriname Paramaccan Kwinti, in Suriname...
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    different African ethnicities. These tribes include the Saramaka, Paramaka, Ndyuka or Aukan, Kwinti, Aluku or Boni, and Matawai. The Maroons often raided plantations...
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