The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: BRC
ISO 639-2: crp
| Population | 4 or 5 speakers (1993 S. Kouwenberg), 15 with limited competence (1989 J. Holm). |
| Region | Berbice River area. |
| Classification | Creole, Dutch based. |
| Comments | Speakers claim it is not inherently intelligible with Skepi or Rupununi. About 1/3 of the basic lexicon and, most of the productive morphology is from Eastern Ijo in Nigeria; most of the rest of the lexicon is from Dutch, 10% loans from Arawak and Guyanese Creole English. Speakers are bilingual in Guyanese, which has influenced Berbice considerably. Grammar. SVO. Nearly extinct. |
