Talk:Sranan Tongo
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[edit] Wikipedia in Sranan
A request for a Wikipedia in Sranan has been posted to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Sranan. If you are a (native) speaker of Sranan and/or want to support this new Wikipedia you can add your accountname on meta to this request list. Gebruiker:Dedalus 12:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sranan, not Sranang, srely?
Srely sme mistake. I am a linguist and I have never seen the spelling Sranang. The form Sranan (with or without Tongo, I don't care) is overwhelmingly more common: so shouldn't the redirect go the other way?
- Fixed. --Khoikhoi 06:00, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] only 340 words?
my uncle john's bathroom reader calender claims that "The Taki language, spoken in parts of Guinea, consists of only 340 words". is there any truth to this?
- Your uncle john's bathroom reader calender is wrong, if it's about Sranan language: just have a look on this Sranan-English dictionary. It may be about another "Taki" language spoken in Papua New Guinea, but I don't know anything about it. Croquant 20:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- thanks. i knew a wikipidean would be able to debunk that uncle's john's dubious claims.216.234.58.18 20:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Is Sranan Tongo an Indo-European language?=
Is Sranan Tongo an Indo-European language? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.183.100.8 (talk • contribs) 06:39, June 4, 2007
- The widespread self-image is that Sranan is English-based (hence the slightly derogative nickname Negro English), with West-African, Portugese loan words, with severe language 'pollution' by Dutch in the capital Paramaribo. In Paramaribo resides the largest number of speakers. This influence, not surprisingly, decreases with distance. IMO, Sranan Tongo is not only an Indo-European language, but belongs to the Germanic branch as well.
--Brian Tjoe-Nij (talk) 14:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Yo brother, what are you talking about "pollution" by Dutch? Mallerd (talk) 15:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "It is the mothertongue of the Creoles"
What the crap does this even mean? How can it be the mother tongue of all creole languages?76.87.160.171 08:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Taki Taki
I doubt it is incorrect, I know a Javanese from Suriname who is taught "Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Taki Taki and speaks Javanese". She lived almost her whole life there, how can she be wrong? Mallerd (talk) 15:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] All I Want To Know
You kow all i want to know is just a few facts about West Africa, that is like were is Tongo located, amount of population in Tonog, what they farm, there way of life and the surrounding villages around Tongo. that is all so why cant you just simpely tell me these few things that is all that i wish......OK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.178.118.156 (talk) 05:22, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
