Berbice Creole Dutch
PrintA language of Guyana
ISO 639-3
Population
No remaining speakers. 15 with limited competence (Holm 1989).
Location
Berbice river area.
Language Status
10 (Extinct).
Classification
Dialects
Claim it is not inherently intelligible with Skepi Creole Dutch [skw] or the Rupununi dialect of Guyanese Creole English [gyn]. About one-third of the basic lexicon and most of the productive morphology is from Izon [ijc] in Nigeria; most of the rest of the lexicon is from Dutch [nld], 10% loans from Arawak [arw] and Guyanese Creole English.
Typology
SVO
Language Development
Grammar.
Language Resources