Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages

Classification:     Pidgin.

Comments:        Second language only.

Language Use:       Trade language.

• Formerly used until the 1960s by the Ndyuka and Trio and Wayana peoples for trading.
• Increasing travel by the Amerindians to the coast at that time cut back on that trade, and also gave some of them opportunity to use Sranan in contact with the Ndyuka.
• Many Ndyuka men in their 30s or older now do not know it. Scarcely used at all now

Population:         No estimate available.

Region:              Southern Suriname, upper Tapanahonij River.