This article is about an extinct Creole language. For the ethnonym in the United States, see Black-Dutch. For the Black population of the Netherlands, see Afro-Dutch.
Negerhollands
Creole Dutch
Region
U.S. Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands
Extinct
1987, with the death of Alice Stevens
Language family
Dutch Creole
Negerhollands
Writing system
Latin (Dutch alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
dcr
Glottolog
nege1244
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 language with Danish, English, French, Spanish, and African elements incorporated. Notwithstanding its name, Negerhollands drew primarily from the Zeelandic rather than the Hollandic dialect of Dutch.
Notwithstanding its name, Negerhollands drew primarily from the Zeelandic rather than the Hollandic dialect of Dutch. Negerhollands emerged around 1700 on...
Puerto Rican Spanish and the local Crucian dialect of creole English. Negerhollands, a Dutch-based creole language, was formerly spoken on St. John, St...
enslaved Africans first creating a Dutch-based creole, known as Negerhollands. Negerhollands was in mainstream usage on St. Thomas and St. John until the...
well as a local English creole, are spoken. A Dutch creole known as Negerhollands was spoken in the former Danish West Indian islands of Saint Thomas...
Ijo varieties from southern Nigeria. In contrast to the widely known Negerhollands Dutch creole spoken in the Virgin Islands, Berbice Creole Dutch and...
worldwide, mainly in the United States, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean areas. Negerhollands ('Negro-Dutch') was a Dutch-based creole language that was spoken in...
needed] Extinct Dutch-based creole languages include: Skepi (Guyana); Negerhollands (aka "Negro Dutch"), Jersey Dutch and Mohawk Dutch (U.S.), and Javindo...
Albany, New York), Berbice (in Guyana), Skepi (in Essequibo, Guyana) and Negerhollands (in the United States Virgin Islands). Pennsylvania Dutch is not a member...
and people of Dutch and Mohawk descent; extinct as of early 1900s. Negerhollands, formerly spoken in the Danish West Indies, now the U.S. Virgin Islands;...
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negerduits ("Negro Dutch", not to be confused with the Dutch creole Negerhollands). This term was used both for the speech of the Ramapough (a distinct...
cases, unique creoles took the place of native languages. For example Negerhollands (spoken until the death of Alice Stevens in 1987) formed as a Dutch-based...
Nolasquez 1987 Dyangadi Pama-Nyungan New South Wales, Australia 1987 Negerhollands Dutch-based creole U.S. Virgin Islands with the death of Alice Stevens...
mid-20th century, there was a Dutch Creole language spoken on the islands—Negerhollands—especially by people whose ancestors were slaves, and those who had...
property of a display system ISO 639-3 code for the extinct language Negerhollands. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title DCR...
the colonies was conducted in English and the local population spoke Negerhollands, a creole language which was an amalgamation of African, Danish, Dutch...
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