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Sranan

Sranan
Spoken at Suriname , French Guiana
Number of speakers 300,000 in Suriname, including 120 000 as a first language, tens of thousands in French Guiana
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ISO 639-2 srn
ISO 639-3 ( en ) srn
IETF srn
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Sranan (short form, also Sranan Tongo "language of Suriname, also known as Creole Surinamese; etymology Suriname ; in Dutch is a set of creoles based on English or Portuguese languages, which are two clearly differentiated:

spoken in Suriname and in the western French Guiana. Besides the words of English origin, found in their vocabulary words from Dutch , Portuguese and African.

Taki taki is the term used in a rather pejorative, by whites and Creoles to refer indiscriminately, addition, the various languages spoken in the western French Guiana (River region Maroni ), by Bushinenge ( liit. "negroes of the woods), descendants of the Maroons , as Ndjuka or Paramaca that are combined in a set of language Aluku, and Ndjuka Paramaka.

It is the lingua franca of Suriname , and as such is spoken by 300,000 people in this country, including 120 000 as a first language.

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List of regional variations of English
UK and Ireland British English Received Pronunciation English English ( English from East Anglia cockney Estuary English English West Country English Midlands Brummie scouse English North Geordie ) English Welsh English Scottish English Highland English Manx English Ulster Irish English English Channel Islands English Gibraltar English Maltese maltish / minglish
United States American English General American African-American English Ebonics Chicano English English New England American English North Central English Midwestern American English West Southern American English
Canada Canadian English English Newfoundland
Caribbean English Caribbean Jamaican English English Bahamian Trinidadian English English Belize English Guyana Bermudian English
Oceania Australian English English Australian aborigines English New Zealand
Asia Pakistani English Indian English English Sri Lanka English Burmese English Hong Kong English Singapore English Malaysian Philippine English
Africa Liberian English Nigerian English English Cameroon English Ugandan Malawian English South African English
International Standard English International English Mid-Atlantic Franais English North America
Variety simplified Basic Franais Plain Franais simplified English Special English Globish
Creole English Aluku, and Ndjuka Paramaka Creole ngatik Jamaican Creole Belizean Creole Gullah Ndjuka Sranan Saramaka Hawaiian Creole Creole Australian norfolk pitcairn Bislama Tok Pisin Pijin

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