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This is a demography of the population of Suriname, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. Most Surinamese people live in the narrow, northern coastal plain. The population is one of the most ethnically varied in the world.
For most Surinamese, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Surinamese. Suriname is a multiethnic and multilingual society, home to people of various ethnic , racial , religious , and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants.
Sranan Tongo (Sranantongo "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole) [2] is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 519,600 people in Suriname.
Surinamese Creoles, mixed people descending from African slaves and Europeans (mostly Dutch), form 15.7% of the population. Javanese make up 14% of the population, and like the East Indians, descend largely from workers contracted from the island of Java in the former Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia).
Indigenous peoples in Suriname, Native Surinamese, or Amerindian Surinamese, are Surinamese people who are of indigenous ancestry. They comprise approximately 3.5% of Suriname 's population of 612,985.
Surinamese Americans; Total population; 2,833 (2000 U.S. Census) [1] 10,000 - 15,000 (other estimates) ... Creole, and Javanese, organizing many activities and events ...
A large proportion of the population lives in the Para District often in villages shared with the Lokono people. The main settlements are Bernharddorp, Wit-Santi, Galibi, Powakka and Bigi Ston. [25] The Kali'na lived in the same area as the colonizers, and have a peace treaty with Suriname since 1686. [26]
The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo, a diminutive of cria meaning a person raised in one's house.Cria is derived from criar, meaning "to raise or bring up", itself derived from the Latin creare, meaning "to make, bring forth, produce, beget"; which is also the source of the English word "create".