Berbice Dutch Creole
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A language of Guyana
User Population
No known L1 speakers. Last speaker, Princess Sauers, died in 2015.
Location
East Berbice-Corentyne and Upper Demerara-Berbice regions.
Language Status
10 (Extinct).
Dialects
May not be inherently intelligible with Skepi Dutch Creole [skw] or the Rupununi dialect of Guyanese English Creole [gyn]. About one-third of the basic lexicon and most of the productive morphology is from Izon [ijc] in Nigeria; most of the rest of the lexicon is from Dutch [nld], 10% loans from Arawak [arw] and Guyanese English Creole.
Typology
SVO.
Language Development
Dictionary. Grammar.