LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.03.08 (04) [E]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.03.07 (05) [E]

The only sur(i)name I remember is Aboikoni, lit. the-boy-cunning, the smart
boy. I knew a "Bush Negro" when I lived in Eindhoven long ago with that
name. It looks Sranan Tongo to me, but many Bush Negro creoles are very
closely related to Sranan. Except for Saramaccan, that has much more
Portuguese vocabulary in it. Saramaccan is also called Dyu Tongo = Jew
language. The Marroons = runaway slaves that fled the plantages owned by
Portuguese speaking Sephardi Jews in Suriname are believed to be the
ancestors of the Saramaccans. I think that all or most African slaves knew
at least some Portuguese pidgin as their first foreign language, because
all Creoles have a few Portuguese basic words in common. In the case of
Saramaccan this situation was probably preserved because of the Portuguese
speaking "masters", whereas in Sranan Tongo and others there was a shift to
English vocabulary first and to Dutch later. So, this answeres your
question about what the Bushland Creoles speak: no more Niger-Congo or
other African languages, nor Amerindian. They preserved more African words
though than Sranan. There is (was) another Creole language, Berbice Dutch
in Surinames neighboring country (former British) Guyana that was based on
Dutch but had kept a lot of words in it from one African language,Igbo.

Btw, I think some Suriname toponyms are used as surname too, like Moengo.

Ingmar

>Críostóir wrote:

>On two Suriname-related points: 1. Has Sranan Tongo or Taino / Arawak
>produced any surnames or popular first names in Suriname and the
>Netherlands? 2. Do the so-called Bush Negroes still speak Niger-Congo
>languages or did they long ago shift to Dutch, Taino / Arawak or Sranan
>Tongo?

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