Imprensa: "Berbice Dutch officially extinct"

[Hein van der Voort]

Prezados colegas,

A notícia sobre a extinção de Berbice Dutch fala 
verdade, e neste caso, o Ethnologue não pisou na 
bola. Como a especialista Silvia Kouwenberg, 
autora de uma gramatica descritiva da língua (com 
editora Mouton de Gruyter em 1994) e professora 
na University of the West Indies em Jamaica, hoje comentou na lista Creoletalk:

The source of the story is a reporter at the Dutch National Geographic who
contacted me about the status of the language. He took the initiative to
write to unesco to get BD on the officially extinct list, and did a one-page
article on it. The story was taken up by Dutch world service radio, which
broadcast an interview with me. Apparently, the contributor to this website
was made aware of it through their broadcast. Silvia

Nota que o texto do Radio Netherlands Worldwide 
parece implicar que as línguas crioulas 
holandeses incluem Papiamento e Sranan Tongo. É 
verdade que estas línguas estão faladas em 
lugares que representam (no caso de Suriname: 
antigos) territórios holandeses. Porém, 
Papiamento é uma língua crioula baseado 
lexicalmente em Portugues e Espanhol, enquanto 
Sranan Tongo é uma língua crioula baseado em 
inglês. Estas línguas não são baseados 
lexicalmente em holandês como Berbice Dutch e as 
outras línguas mencionados no texto.

Hein van der Voort

At 22:04 27-2-2010, you wrote:
>
>
>Prezados,
>
>A nota abaixo, sobre a extinção do Berbice Dutch 
>(um crioulo holandês com elementos Arawak), foi 
>publicada no site da Radio Netherlands Worldwide:
>
><http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/berbice-dutch-officially-extinct>http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/berbice-dutch-officially-extinct
>
>A nota menciona que esta foi a conclusão do 
>Ethnologue, "the authoritative international 
>language database". Como o Ethnologue pisa na 
>bola em vários casos sul-americanos, talvez seja 
>bom saber a opinião de colegas com experiência na região.
>
>Abraços,
>
>Eduardo
>
>-----------------------
>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.
>
>Twenty years ago there were still handfuls of 
>Berbice speakers in Guyana but, since it has 
>been discovered that the last speaker died in 
>2005, the authoritative international language 
>database Ethnologue has declared Berbice Dutch extinct.
>
>A wide variety of Dutch creoles once existed 
>around the globe. They included Albany Dutch, 
>Jersey Dutch and Mohawk Dutch in North America, 
>Berbice and Skepi in South America, Cape Dutch 
>in South Africa, Ceylon Dutch in Sri Lanka and Javindo in Indonesia.
>
>Those still alive and kicking include Papiamento 
>in the Netherlands Antilles and Sranan Tongo in 
>Surinam. Afrikaans, which is based largely on 
>Dutch, is not officially classed as a creole 
>although it does have features in common with many creoles.
>
>
>© Radio Netherlands Worldwide
>
>
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