SARAMACCAN-ENGLISH

Saramaccan Grammar Sketch

By Catherine Rountree S.

Book information

Language
saramaccan-english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2279326 bytes)
Pages
\44
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Контактные языки;Сарамаккански

Description

Publisher: Summer Institute of LinguisticsDate: 1992Pages: 44Saramaccan (autonym: Saamáka) is a creole language spoken by about 24,000 people near the Saramacca and upper Suriname Rivers in Suriname (formerly also known as Dutch Guyana), and 2,000 in French Guiana. The speakers are mostly descendants of fugitive slaves; they form a group called Saramacca, also spelled Saramaka.Saramaccan is remarkable to linguists because of its unusual divergence from its source languages.

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