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

in ReggaeJAHM5 years ago

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.