BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage
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Sigma KEE - BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage
BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage
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The BerbiceCreoleDutchLanguage is a DutchBasedCreoleLanguage of Guyana. SIL code: BRC. ISO 639-2: crp. Population: 4 or 5 speakers (1993 S. Kouwenberg), 15 with limited competence (1989 J. Holm). Region: Berbice River area. Comments: Speakers claim it is not inherently intelligible with Skepi or Rupununi. About 1/3 of the basic lexicon and, most of the productive morphology is from Eastern Ijo in Nigeria; most of the rest of the lexicon is from Dutch, 10% loans from Arawak and Guyanese Creole English. Speakers are bilingual in Guyanese, which has influenced Berbice considerably. Grammar. SVO. Nearly extinct.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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