legal status of creoles (fwd)

[David Robertson]

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Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:22:25 +0200
From: CreoLIST <CreoLIST at ling.su.se>
From: "Jim Park" <jfpark at mail.com>
To:  J.P. Esperaca

In Suriname, the constitution of the country recognizes the right
of each ethnic group to use its own language.  The government has
also taken steps to establish official spellings of several
Creole languages including Sranan Tongo.  Beyond that the
languages have no official status.  They are not approved for use
in Parliament, for public documents, or anything of that sort.
They are not approved for use in government schools.  Sranan
Tongo, the national lingua franca, is not used for publishing any
of the national newspapers.  It is used very extensively on
radio.  Therefore, I would have to say that it remains a very
important informal language.  It does not have formal
recognition.

Jim Park
Aukan Language Project
Suriname





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