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Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>Some of you might be interested in this video about the supposedly last native speaker of Berbice Creole Dutch in Guyana:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PH1TvEE8Vw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PH1TvEE8Vw</a><br>
<br>The video is pretty well presented and is interesting to me. What a privilege to meet that 103-year-old lady!<br><br>Wouldn't it be great if we could still listen to Mohawk Dutch, Albany Dutch, and Jersey Dutch? Albany Dutch (of Albany, New York) might still have a few elderly speakers. It must be distinguished from Mohawk Dutch, once spoken in pretty much the same location.<br>
<br>Skepi, another Dutch-based creole of Guyana, has been extinct since 1989. "Negerhollands" appears to have become extinct in 1987. Are there any recordings of them?<br><br>When I trekked around the island of Java in 1982 (on foot and via public transport), locals told me that speakers of Javindo, a Dutch-Javanese creole, could still be found in places, though I found none of them. Similarly, I did not find speakers of Petjo, a Dutch-Indonesian (i.e. Dutch-Malay) creole, though I am told that there are still some in the Netherlands and possibly Western Australia. In the first couple of years of Lowlands-L (1995-1996) we had a Petjo-speaking member in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, he left us before we could get any significant information about his home language out of him. However, in Indonesia I did find a few older Indonesians (mostly Sundanese and Javanese) who remembered their locally colored Dutch. If this happened in public, they would whisper while talking in Dutch.<br>
<br>Rumor has it that there are a few remaining speakers of so-called "Ceylon Dutch" in Sri Lanka and possibly Australia, in the so-called "Burgher" community of Sri Lanka. These are predominantly Christian Sri Lankans with more or less Dutch ancestry. I have known a few Burghers in Australia and the USA, but never any that spoke the old language.<br>
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