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The Paramaccan are an ethnic group living in the forested interior of Suriname, and the eponymous term for their dialect, which has less than 1,000 speakers. The dialect is English-based with French and other influences. It is similar to the languages spoken by the Aluku and Kwinti. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Aluku is the linguistic entity of the eponymuous tribe in Suriname. ...


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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Paramaccan (77 words)
Paramaccan is the linguistic entity of the eponymuous tribe in Suriname.
The Paramaccans live in the interior of the country which is a part of the country mainly covered with forests.
Paramaccan is an English-based entity with less than a thousand speakers.
SILEWP 1996-003 (4090 words)
The phenomenon with which this paper is concerned is a morphophonological one, both synchronically unusual and diachronically puzzling.
Each of these is spoken by a society of escaped slaves formed during the mid to late eighteenth century (Price 1976:31), now living in eastern Suriname in close proximity to and in continual contact with the Ndyukas.
Finally, Kwinti is another creole of central Suriname, resembling Saramaccan and Matawai in some ways and Ndyuka, Paramaccan, and Aluku in some ways (Huttar 1988; but see Smith 1993 for a reappraisal).
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