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Surinamese Dutch (Surinaams-Nederlands, pronounced [ˌsyːriˈnaːms ˈneːdərlɑnts]) also known as Surinaams is the form of Dutch spoken in Suriname and is the official language in Suriname, a former Dutch colony.
- Dutch Surinamese
Dutch Surinamese (Dutch: Boeroes) are Surinamese people of...
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Suriname has roughly 14 local languages, but Dutch (...
- Dutch Surinamese
The Netherlands has approximately 365,000 people of Surinamese descent, making it the largest Caribbean community in Europe and one of the largest community from the Americas. With over 300,000 of them being black, it also makes the largest Afro community in the Netherlands.
Suriname has roughly 14 local languages, but Dutch ( Nederlands) is the sole official language and is the language used in education, government, business, and the media. [18] Over 60% of the population are native speakers of Dutch [99] and around 20%–30% speak it as a second language.
Surinamese people are people who identify with the country of Suriname. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Surinamese, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Surinamese.
Surinam ( Dutch: Suriname ), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, bordered by the equally Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east. It later bordered British Guiana from 1831 to 1966.
Dutch Surinamese (Dutch: Boeroes) are Surinamese people of Dutch descent. Dutch migrant settlers in search of a better life started arriving in Suriname in the 19th century with the boeroes, poor farmers arriving from the Dutch provinces of Gelderland, Utrecht, and Groningen.
Suriname was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1954 and 1975. The country had full autonomy, except in areas of defence and foreign policy, and participated on a basis of equality with the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands itself in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
