Sranan Tongo
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Sranan Tongo (also Sranantongo "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Taki Taki (pejorative), Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole) is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 550,000 people in Suriname.
Developed originally among slaves from West Africa and English colonists, its use as a lingua franca expanded after the Dutch took over the colony in 1667, and 85% of the vocabulary comes from English and Dutch. It became the common language also among the indigenous peoples and languages of indentured laborers imported by the Dutch, including speakers of Javanese, Sarnami Hindustani, Saramaccan, and varieties of Chinese.
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