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Over half of Saramaccan's words are from English. It is generally agreed that Saramaccan's Portuguese influence is because the language's creators lived on plantations with Portuguese masters, and possibly slaves speaking a Portuguese creole that the masters had brought with them while migrating to Surinam from Brazil. Saramaccan's creators started with an early form of Sranan Tongo and transformed it into a new creole via this Portuguese influx,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1383549 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr> | Over half of Saramaccan's words are from English. It is generally agreed that Saramaccan's Portuguese influence is because the language's creators lived on plantations with Portuguese masters, and possibly slaves speaking a Portuguese creole that the masters had brought with them while migrating to Surinam from Brazil. Saramaccan's creators started with an early form of Sranan Tongo and transformed it into a new creole via this Portuguese influx,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1383549 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr> | ||
<tr><td><h2>Location of Saramaccan language Speakers</h2> | <tr><td><h2>Location of Saramaccan language Speakers</h2> | ||
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2> | <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2> |
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