Aukaans

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Aukaans is a creole language spoken primarily by the Ndyuka (Aukan) Maroon community in Suriname and French Guiana.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Aukaans canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Maroon Creole
creole language
alternativeName Aukaans Tongo NERFINISHED
Aukan NERFINISHED
Ndyuka NERFINISHED
Ndyuka Tongo NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Aluku NERFINISHED
Pamaka NERFINISHED
Sranan Tongo NERFINISHED
country France
Suriname NERFINISHED
developedFrom contact between English and West African languages
developedInCentury 17th century
developedInContext maroon communities formed by escaped enslaved Africans
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode ndyu1241
hasDialect Paramacca-influenced varieties
hasInfluenceFrom Dutch
Sranan Tongo NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticResearchOn phonology
sociolinguistics
syntax
hasMorphologicalFeature little inflectional morphology
serial verb constructions
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal contrasts
hasSubstrateLanguage Gbe languages NERFINISHED
Kikongo NERFINISHED
Other West African languages
hasSuperstrateLanguage English NERFINISHED
hasSyntacticFeature SVO basic word order
ISO639-3Code djk
languageFamily English-based creole
primaryEthnicGroup Ndyuka people NERFINISHED
region Cottica River area
Marowijne River area NERFINISHED
spokenIn French Guiana NERFINISHED
Suriname NERFINISHED
status living language
usedAs community lingua franca among Ndyuka
usedBy Maroon communities
Ndyuka Maroons NERFINISHED
usedIn oral tradition
rituals
songs
storytelling
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aukan hasAlternativeName Aukaans
Njuká hasAlternativeName Aukaans