RE: The Suriname Popular Song Festival 🎼 An Introduction to Classical Suripop

Interesting tunes! I quite like the jazzy one. They all sound like blends of many different genres but the last song I can definitely hear that Caribbean calypso and Latin! God vibes, I would look silly dancing to this though, you’d have to those samba moves down pat.

So how many langues are spoken in Suriname ? There is 3 majors so there are others ?

Jamaican song festival used to be huge, there was one this year but they made well known musician enter which kinda defeats part of the purpose, I think Buju won.

But the Jamaican festival song of all time is this below! The song was so huge but didn’t win the competition, everyone was vexed! Up to this day people love the song ! Listen to it, and the chorus will be stuck in your head for life 😂 you gonna suddenly start sining it and be like wtf!

Love the song, especially that chorus. Gives a Caribbean island vibe, sitting under a palm tree with a cocktail in hand.

So how many langues are spoken in Suriname ? There is 3 majors so there are others ?

The ones I mentioned are 3 of the big ones. So there are more big ones. I could've probably formulated that better. 😅 The large parts of the population that have their own ancestral language are the native americans (indians), javanese people (indonesians), chinese, (taxi cab) indians, the different maroon tribes living in the amazon part in the south. And then there's the ones that almost everyone can (or should be able to) speak: Dutch (official), Sranang Tongo (street language derived from Dutch, Spanish and English during slavery) and English. So I would say about 9 prominent languages if we look at population percentage.

Of course those ancestral languages are spoken less and less with each new generation. I could probably do a post about this.