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Encyclopedia > Aluku

Aluku is the linguistic entity of the eponymuous tribe in Suriname. The Aluku live in the interior of the country which is a part of the country mainly covered with forests. Aluku is an English-based entity with less than a thousand speakers. Similar linguistic entities are Paramaccan and Kwinti. Aluku has French and other influences.


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The Saramacca, Matawai and Kwinti of south-central Suriname, and the Ndjuka, Paramacca and Aluku of the southeastern region remain distinct tribal entities whose autonomous political status finds support in eighteenth and nineteenth-century peace treaties and in historical relations between the coastal government centered in Paramaribo and the leaders of the different tribes.
The Ndjuka have 14 lo, the Saramacca 12, the Matawai 4, the Paramacca 4, the Aluku 7 and the Kwinti 2 (Hoogbergen 1990).
The destruction and pacification of the Aluku marked the end of the Maroons as a disruptive element in coastal society (Goslinga 1990).
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When Eniolla Aluku’s law exams at Brunel University in west London clashed with an important match, the 19-year-old English striker had to put her studies first and did not play.
Aluku has 16 caps and three goals at international level but says committing to football would be ‘like jumping off a cliff’.
Aluku says it would be encouraging to see a sponsor really do something with the team.
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