Berbice Creole Dutch
Extinct Dutch creole spoken Guyana / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Berbice Creole Dutch (also known as Berbice Dutch) is a now extinct Dutch creole language, once spoken in Berbice, a region along the Berbice River in Guyana. It had a lexicon largely based on Dutch and Eastern Ijo varieties from southern Nigeria. In contrast to the widely known Negerhollands Dutch creole spoken in the Virgin Islands, Berbice Creole Dutch and its relative Skepi Creole Dutch were more or less unknown to the outside world until Ian Robertson first reported on the two languages in 1975. The Dutch linguist Silvia Kouwenberg subsequently investigated the creole language, publishing its grammar in 1994, and numerous other works examining its formation and uses.[2]
Berbice Dutch Creole | |
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Region | Guyana |
Extinct | 2005 with the death of Bertha Bell[1] |
Dutch Creole
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | brc |
Glottolog | berb1259 |
ELP | Berbice Creole Dutch |
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