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Berbice Dutch has been declared officially extinct

Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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Excerpt from an Radio Netherlands Worldwide:

Berbice Dutch, a Dutch creole spoken in part of Guyana, has been declared officially extinct, according to an article in the March issue of the Dutch edition of National Geographic.

Berbice Dutch was spoken in plantations along the River Berbice, part of Guyana which was once a private colony founded by a Dutch planter from Zeeland. It is a mixture of the Zeeland dialect of Dutch, the local Arawak Indian language and Ijo, spoken by slaves from Nigeria.


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Berbice Dutch has been declared officially extinct
Suyash Suprabh
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Feb 27, 2010

Hundreds of languages are on the brink of extinction.

(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070918-languages-extinct.html)


 
ERNESTO GARCIA MARIN
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Feb 28, 2010

Very intresting

 

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