Sranan Tongo (Sranantongo "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole)[2] is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 519,600 people in Suriname.[1]
Developed originally among enslaved Africans from Central and West Africa in Suriname, its use as a lingua franca expanded after the Dutch took over the colony in 1667. 85% of the vocabulary comes from English and Dutch. It also became the common language among the Indigenous peoples and the indentured laborers imported by the Dutch; these groups included speakers of Javanese, Sarnami Hindustani, Saramaccan, and varieties of Chinese.
Sranan Tongo is commonly but incorrectly cited as "having a vocabulary of only 340 words"; in fact, contemporary Sranan Tongo dictionaries have several thousand word entries.[3]
SrananTongo (Sranantongo "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole) is an English-based creole language that is spoken as...
Dutch and SrananTongo), the society functions as a diglossia, where Dutch is the standardized and formal prestige register and SrananTongo generally...
An estimated 60% of the population speaks Dutch as a native language. SrananTongo, an English-based creole language, is a widely used lingua franca. Most...
known as Tongo, an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea SrananTongo, a Creole language of Suriname All pages with titles beginning with Tongo All pages...
Guyana. In Suriname, languages that have lexically influenced it include SrananTongo Creole, Surinamese Dutch and English. Other dialects are spoken in Mauritius...
Javanese Surinamese who form about 14% of the country's population. SrananTongo, an English-based creole, serves as one of the lingua francas of Suriname...
SrananTongo, or for short Sranan, an English-based creole language spoken by many people in Suriname, is not an officially recognized language. Until...
language is derived from Plantation Creole which is nowadays known as SrananTongo, but the branches diverged around 1690 and evolved separately. The Saramaccan...
Plantation Creole which is nowadays known as SrananTongo in the middle 18th century. Code-switching with SrananTongo and Dutch was common among the younger...
and authenticity. The song is mostly written in English and partly in SrananTongo, a lingua franca in Suriname. On 4 March 2021 Macrooy and the broadcaster...
Lelydorp (SrananTongo: Kofi Djompo) is the capital city of Wanica District, located in Suriname. With a population of 18,663 (2012), it is the second...
countrymen" in SrananTongo), is the national anthem of Suriname. It has two verses: the first in Dutch and the second in SrananTongo. The original version...
The organisation became multilingual with the addition of Dutch and SrananTongo-speaking Suriname in 1995 and the French and Haitian Creole-speaking...
A Baccoo (bakru in SrananTongo, and bakulu or bakuu in Saramaccan language) is a legendary character from Guyanese and Surinamese folklore. Description...
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Peperomia pellucida (also known by common names pepper elder, shining bush plant, and man to man) is an annual, shallow-rooted herb, usually growing to...
still produces. A related dish named pinda-dokkunnu ("peanut cheese" in SrananTongo) existed in Suriname by 1783. This was more solid than modern peanut...
to its diverse population, it has also developed a creole language, SrananTongo. Suriname was populated millennia before the Europeans by many distinct...
Furthermore, the use of words of West African origin in Surinamese Creole (SrananTongo) and Jamaican Patois, such as unu and Bajan dialect wunna or una – West...
speak Dutch, with the effect that local creoles such as Papiamento and SrananTongo which were based not on Dutch but rather other European languages, became...
The Suriname national football team (Dutch: Surinaams voetbalelftal; SrananTongo: Sranankondre fubal pluga) represents Suriname in international football...
(McWhorter 2018). As one example, McWhorter (2013) notes that the creole Sranan, which has existed for centuries in a diglossic relationship with Dutch...
large number of nasal vowels) Yoruba Mande languages Surinamese Creoles (SrananTongo, Ndyuka language, Saramaccan language) Krio language Basilectal Western...
birthday song in Suriname. The lyrics are in the Surinamese language SrananTongo. The song consists of only two verses of which either the first or both...
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