• Sranan Tongo (Sranantongo "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole) is an English-based creole language that is spoken as...
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    Dutch and Sranan Tongo), the society functions as a diglossia, where Dutch is the standardized and formal prestige register and Sranan Tongo generally...
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    Suriname (category Pages with Sranan Tongo IPA)
    Suriname (/ˈsʊərɪnæm, -nɑːm/ SOOR-in-A(H)M, Dutch: [syːriˈnaːmə] , Sranan Tongo: [sraˈnãŋ]), officially the Republic of Suriname (Dutch: Republiek Suriname...
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  • Creole init (French Guianan Creole)) (Kréyòl gwiyanè) Sranan Tongo (Surinamese Creole) (Sranan Tongo) Creole language, a stable natural language that develops...
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    Javanese Surinamese who form about 14% of the country's population. Sranan Tongo, an English-based creole, serves as one of the lingua francas of Suriname...
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    Guyana. In Suriname, languages that have lexically influenced it include Sranan Tongo Creole, Surinamese Dutch and English. Other dialects are spoken in Mauritius...
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  • influence. They had their own religion, Winti, and their own language, Sranan Tongo. They also used this as a subtle form of resistance. For example, many...
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    The organisation became multilingual with the addition of Dutch and Sranan Tongo-speaking Suriname in 1995 and the French and Haitian Creole-speaking...
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  • Helena (Latin, Polish); Eliana (Portuguese); Eline (Dutch, Norwegian, Sranan Tongo); Ileana (Romanian, Italian, Spanish); Ilona (Hungarian, Finnish, Latvian);...
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  • God zij met ons Suriname (category Articles containing Sranan Tongo-language text)
    countrymen" in Sranan Tongo), is the national anthem of Suriname. It has two verses: the first in Dutch and the second in Sranan Tongo. The original version...
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  • language is derived from Plantation Creole, which is nowadays known as Sranan Tongo, but the branches diverged around 1690 and evolved separately. The Saramaccan...
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  • known as Tongo, an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea Sranan Tongo, a Creole language of Suriname All pages with titles beginning with Tongo All pages...
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  • Sranan Tongo, or for short Sranan, an English-based creole language spoken by many people in Suriname, is not an official language of Surinam but it has...
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  • A Baccoo (bakru in Sranan Tongo, and bakulu or bakuu in Saramaccan language) is a legendary character from Guyanese and Surinamese folklore. Description...
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  • birthday song in Suriname. The lyrics are in the Surinamese language Sranan Tongo. The song consists of only two verses of which either the first or both...
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  • to its diverse population, it has also developed a creole language, Sranan Tongo. Suriname was populated millennia before the Europeans by many distinct...
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    as national languages. Other languages found in South America include Sranan Tongo, Hindustani and Javanese in Suriname; Italian in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay...
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  • and authenticity. The song is mostly written in English and partly in Sranan Tongo, a lingua franca in Suriname. On 4 March 2021 Macrooy and the broadcaster...
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  • Plantation Creole which is nowadays known as Sranan Tongo in the middle 18th century. Code-switching with Sranan Tongo and Dutch was common among the younger...
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    Wikipedia Dusun Dusun Latn dtp 1,124 44 Unknown date Sranan Tongo Wikipedia Sranan Wikipedia Sranan Tongo Latn srn 1,123 11 Unknown date Mandailing Batak Wikipedia...
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  • Furthermore, the use of words of West African origin in Surinamese Creole (Sranan Tongo) and Jamaican Patois, such as unu and Bajan dialect wunna or una – West...
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    Maroni (river) (category Articles containing Sranan Tongo-language text)
    The Maroni (French: [maʁɔni]) or Marowijne (Dutch: [maːroːˈʋɛinə]; Sranan Tongo: Marwina-Liba) is a river in South America that forms the border between...
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  • (creolized) Roquetas Pidgin Spanish Russenorsk Settler Swahili Surzhyk Sranan Tongo Taimyr Pidgin Russian Tây Bồi Pidgin French Tinglish Te Parau Tinito...
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    Peperomia pellucida (category Articles containing Sranan Tongo-language text)
    Peperomia pellucida (also known by common names pepper elder, shining bush plant, crab claw herb, and man to man) is an annual, shallow-rooted herb, usually...
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    Suriname national football team (category Articles containing Sranan Tongo-language text)
    The Suriname national football team (Dutch: Surinaams voetbalelftal; Sranan Tongo: Sranankondre fubal pluga) represents Suriname in international football...
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  • festivals in the Netherlands and there are many signs that are written in Sranan Tongo, a Surinamese Creole language. Amsterdam, the Dutch city with most Surinamese...
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    offices in twenty-three countries. The name Adyen means 'start again' in Sranan Tongo. This is a reference to this being the second project of the founders...
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    speak Dutch, with the effect that local creoles such as Papiamento and Sranan Tongo which were based not on Dutch but rather other European languages, became...
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    Creole language (category Articles containing Sranan Tongo-language text)
    (McWhorter 2018). As one example, McWhorter (2013) notes that the creole Sranan, which has existed for centuries in a diglossic relationship with Dutch...
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    creole and pidgin languages; these include Guyanese Creole in Guyana, Sranan Tongo, Saramaccan, Ndyuka, Matawai, and Kwinti in Suriname, and French Guianese...
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