Sranantongo
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See also: Sranan Tongo
English
Proper noun
Sranantongo
- Alternative form of Sranan Tongo
Dutch
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Etymology
Borrowed from Sranan Tongo Sranantongo.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sranantongo n
- Sranan Tongo
- Synonyms: Sranan, Surinaams Creools (dated, rare), Surinaams (Netherlands, proscribed in Suriname), takitaki (dated, pejorative, offensive), Negerengels (obsolete, possibly offensive)
Italian
Proper noun
Sranantongo ?
Sranan Tongo
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Etymology
Proper noun
Sranantongo
- Sranan Tongo
- Synonyms: Sranan, nengretongo (dated), nengre (informal)
- Sranantongo na wan fu den Sranan tongo.
- Sranan Tongo is one of the languages of Suriname.
- 1950 January 23, Gerard van der Schroeff, “Einde van de koloniale voogdij. (Radiorede van de heer G. van der Schroeff) [The end of colonial tutelage. Radio address by Mr G. Van der Schroeff]”, in De West, page 5:
- Tide mamantin, wan bigi soema kon aksi mi, iffoe mie no kan taki wan pikien sani na ini Sranang tongo, bikasi alla soema no verstan alla sani fini fini.
- [Tide mamanten, wan bigisma kon aksi mi, efu mi no kan taki wan pikin sani na ini Sranantongo, bikasi alasma no ferstan alasani finifini.]
- This morning, an elderly person came to ask me if I could say something in Sranan Tongo, because not everybody understood everything in detail.