Saramaccan (Saamáka) is a creole language spoken by about 58,000 people of West African descent near the Saramacca and the upper Suriname River, as well...

living in the Amazon jungle. The two main Maroon tribes are the Aukan and Saramaccans. Other smaller tribes include the Aluku, Paramaccan, Kwinti and Matawai...

Commewijne Rivers Paamaka (Paramaccan) at the Marowijne River Saamaka (Saramaccan) at the Suriname River The sources of the Surinamese Maroon vocabulary...

of the population. They are divided into six tribes: Ndyuka (Aucans), Saramaccans, Paramaccans, Kwinti, Aluku (Boni) and Matawai. Surinamese Creoles, mixed...

A Baccoo (bakru in Sranan Tongo, and bakulu or bakuu in Saramaccan language) is a legendary character from Guyanese and Surinamese folklore. Description...

pidgin languages; these include Guyanese Creole in Guyana, Sranan Tongo, Saramaccan, Ndyuka, Matawai, and Kwinti in Suriname, and French Guianese Creole in...

relationship to other languages, often focusing on the Suriname creole language Saramaccan. His work has expanded to a general investigation of the effect of second-language...

Portuguese, notably Papiamento spoken on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao; Saramaccan of Suriname; and Cupópia of Brazil which is nearly extinct. Because Portuguese...

home to Saramaccan Maroons. During the slavery period, they managed to escape from plantations and settled in this region. In addition, Saramaccan villages...

South America: Saramaccan of Suriname. Cupópia of Brazil is nearly extinct. There is no consensus regarding the position of Saramaccan, with some scholars...

need not emerge from a pidgin). Prime examples of this are Aukan and Saramaccan, spoken in Suriname, which have vocabulary mainly from Portuguese, English...

Dutch; these groups included speakers of Javanese, Sarnami Hindustani, Saramaccan, and varieties of Chinese. Sranan Tongo is commonly but incorrectly cited...

Yoruba Mande languages Surinamese Creoles (Sranan Tongo, Ndyuka language, Saramaccan language) Krio language Basilectal Western Caribbean creole languages...

Matawai (in central Suriname) speak variants of a creole language called Saramaccan. The Ndyuka, Paramaka, and Aluku, (in eastern Suriname), as well as the...

Papiamento still spoken in Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, and Sint Eustatius; Saramaccan and Sranan Tongo still spoken in Suriname; Berbice an extinct language...

go extinct in Portugal, Judeo-Portuguese influenced the Papiamento and Saramaccan languages. The earliest known text containing Judeo-Portuguese text is...

grammar. Gil has replied that Riau Indonesian has a simpler grammar than Saramaccan, the language McWhorter uses as a showcase for his theory. The same objections...

mostly on Portuguese and Spanish, spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Saramaccan — based mostly on English, Portuguese and African languages, spoken in...

(Ani, Shirakami-Sanchi) Matawai Indo-European → Germanic → English → Saramaccan Suriname Christianity → Moravian Church Mauritian Creoles Indo-European...

Langaj None; liturgical language of the Haitian Vodou religion. Suriname Saramaccan language Boven Suriname Brokopondo Paramaribo French Guiana Netherlands...

tongue, second language or third language (after Dutch or Sranan Tongo). Saramaccan is spoken by the Saramaka tribe of the Maroon community. Aukan is mainly...

Papiamento Plautdietsch German Saint Kitts Creole Saint Lucian French Creole Saramaccan Sranan Tongo (Taki Taki) Surinamese Dutch Tobagonian English Creole Trinidadian...

Americas: Papiamento, spoken in the ABC islands in the southern Caribbean Saramaccan, creole language of Suriname with vocabulary built based on English, Portuguese...

languages Sranan Tongo Sarnami Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) Javanese Ndyuka Saramaccan Kwinti Chinese English Portuguese French Spanish 8 native languages Akurio...

instance, the 1971 edition of Guinness Book of World Records featured Saramaccan, a creole language, as "the world's least complex language". According...

Belfast English. Some European-based creole languages, such as Krio, Saramaccan and Papiamento, have tone from their African substratum languages. In...

Sranan Tongo  Suriname 670,000 (2016–2018) Including 150,000 L2 users Saramaccan  Suriname 35,000 (2018) Ndyuka  Suriname 68,000 (2018) Dialects: Aluku...

languages Sranan Tongo Sarnami Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) Javanese Ndyuka Saramaccan Kwinti Chinese English Portuguese French Spanish 8 native languages Akurio...

target: CITEREFFaraclas1996 (help) H., McWhorter, John (2012). A grammar of Saramaccan Creole. Good, Jeff. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 9783110278262. OCLC 823841958...

 Suriname Afro-Surinamese Sranan Tongo and Surinamese Dutch (Maroons: Ndyuka, Saramaccan, Kwinti, Aluku) 132.000 Former Netherlands Antilles Country Ethnic group...