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Sranan Tongo

 

Speakers: Sranan Tongo is a creole language spoken by most people in Suriname. It is the mother tongue of about 100,000 people in Suriname who are descendants of slaves brought from Africa during the colonial period. It is also the lingua franca between different ethnic groups in Suriname. Today many Sranan Tongo speakers also live in the Netherlands.

Features of Sranan Tongo. Sranan is similar to Aukan and Saramaccan. As a creole language it is characterized by simple morphology and a relatively small vocabulary. There is no inflection or declension in the words. Although it is impossible to know for sure how many words there are in Sranan, they number in the several thousand, rather than hundreds of thousands for major world languages. These features make it a relatively easy language to learn.

HTML Resources

Sranan Tongo - English Dictionary

So you want to learn Sranan?

Sranan Tongo - Nederlands woordenboek  

Wil je Sranan leren? 

 
PDF Resources

Sranan - English Dictionary in PDF 

Sranan - Nederlands Woordenboek in PDF

 


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