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Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sranan Tongo bakra, from Efik mbakara or Ibibio mbakara.
Noun
ꦧꦏꦿꦃ
- (Surinamese) a white person, someone with a light skin colour.
References
- ^ Lila Gobardhan-Rambocus, Johan Sarmo (1993) “Het Surinaams Javaans ”, in Lila Gobardhan-Rambocus, Maurits S. Hassankhan, editors, Immigratie en ontwikkeling. Emancipatieproces van contractanten (in Dutch), Paramaribo: Anton de Kom Universiteit, page 187
- ^ Norval Smith (2015) “Ingredient X: The shared African lexical element in the English-lexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 70