Kwinti language
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kwinti-language-279-6112220
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Kwinti language
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Kwinti is an English-based creole of Suriname closely related to Ndyuka. The language has less than 300 speakers, and split from 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 generation in 1973, and about 70% of the tribe have moved to the urban areas. UNESCO considers the language endangered. In the 1970s, Jan English-Lueck collected a vocabulary of 500 words. Unlike the Ndyuka langua
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English-based creole of Suriname
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2023-11-07T07:34:20Z
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