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Pages in category "Languages of French Guiana" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
French Guianese Creole was a language spoken between slaves and settlers.But the conditions of French Guianese Creole's constitution were quite different from the Creole of the West Indies, on the one hand because of the conflicts between French, English, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish, and French dialects such as the Caen have greatly influenced French Guianese Creole, which has made it ...
French Guianese Creole is a language spoken in French Guiana, and to a lesser degree in Suriname and Guyana. Karipúna French Creole, spoken in Brazil, mostly in the state of Amapá. (not confuse with Karipuna or Palikúr a native Arawakan language of Amapá State) Lanc-Patuá, spoken more widely in the state of Amapá, is a variety of the ...
Notably, the Creole spoken in the Eastern (windward) part of the island Saint-Barthélemy is spoken exclusively by a white population of European descent, imported into the island from Saint Kitts in 1648. French Guianese Creole is a language spoken in French Guiana, and to a lesser degree in Suriname and Guyana.
It borrows words from Creoles, French, and other American Indian languages (given its position in French Guiana alongside other tribes). Amongst the many tribes in French Guiana, Emerillon makes very little contact with other tribes or foreigners since they have been able to mitigate their decreasing population in the mid 1900s. [8]
Arawak (Arowak, Aruák), also known as Lokono (Lokono Dian, literally "people's talk" by its speakers), is an Arawakan language spoken by the Lokono (Arawak) people of South America in eastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. [2] It is the eponymous language of the Arawakan language family. Lokono is an active–stative language. [3]
French Creole may refer to: Language. French-based creole languages, creole languages based on the French language; French Guianese Creole, a French-lexified creole language spoken mainly in French Guiana; Antillean Creole French, a creole language with vocabulary based on French spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles
Saramaccan (Saamáka) is a creole language spoken by about 58,000 people of West African descent near the Saramacca and the upper Suriname River, as well as in Paramaribo, capital of Suriname (formerly also known as Dutch Guiana). The language also has 25,000 speakers in French Guiana and 8,000 in the Netherlands. [1] It has three main dialects.