Berbice Creole Dutch
Berbice Dutch
Pidgin or Creole; Dutch based creole
No data
brc
No data
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
No data
Speaker Number Trends
No data
Transmission
No data
Language Information By Source
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
No data
Speaker Number Trends
No data
Transmission
No data
Speakers
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Twenty years ago there were still handfuls of Berbice speakers in Guyana but...it has been discovered that the last speaker died in 2005.
2010
Location and Context
Guyana
No data
Berbice Dutch was spoken in plantations along the River Berbice, part of Guyana which was once a private colony founded by a Dutch planter from Zeeland.
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Berbice Dutch was spoken in plantations along the River Berbice, part of Guyana which was once a private colony founded by a Dutch planter from Zeeland.
No data
No data
No data
No data
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
No data
Speaker Number Trends
No data
Transmission
No data
Speakers
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
1
No data
No data
The last known Berbice Dutch Creole speaker is Bertha Bell, who was 103 years old when last interviewed by Ian Robertson and a UWI linguistics research team in March, 2004.
2013
Location and Context
Guyana
6.1667,-57.7167
Berbice Dutch Creole is a language formerly widely spoken in the former Dutch colony of Berbice, which became in the early 19th century part of the British colony of British Guiana, now Guyana. The last speakers of this language were found in the 1970s by Ian Robertson, living on the upper reaches of the Berbice River in and around the area of the Wiruni Creek.
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Berbice Dutch Creole is a language formerly widely spoken in the former Dutch colony of Berbice, which became in the early 19th century part of the British colony of British Guiana, now Guyana. The last speakers of this language were found in the 1970s by Ian Robertson, living on the upper reaches of the Berbice River in and around the area of the Wiruni Creek.
No data
No data
No data
No data
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
No data
Speaker Number Trends
No data
Transmission
No data
Speakers
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Kouwenberg (1993). "15 [individuals] with limited competence [in the language]" (Holm 1989).
2009
Location and Context
Guyana;
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
No data
Speaker Number Trends
No data
Transmission
No data
Speakers
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No known L1 speakers. 15 with limited competence (Holm 1989).
2016
Location and Context
Guyana
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
No data
Speaker Number Trends
No data
Transmission
No data
Speakers
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
2005
Location and Context
No data
5.33333333333,-58.0
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
No data
Speaker Number Trends
No data
Transmission
No data
Speakers
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Location and Context
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
No data
Media Resources
No resources
No resources
No resources
Filter By
No programs
- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- Berbice Dutch CreoleThe University of the West Indies. 2013. "Berbice Dutch Creole." In Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages, Online: http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/ciel/pages/berbicedutch.htm.http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/ciel/pages/berbicedutch.htm
- Berbice Dutch Officially ExtinctFebruary 25, 2010. "Berbice Dutch Officially Extinct." Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW). Online: http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/berbice-dutch-officially-extinct.http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/berbice-dutch-officially-extinct
Comments are not currently available for this post.