Talk:Saramaccan language
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Number of Speakers
[edit]Why do so many places list the number of speakers as 90,000. Looking at the source for the population statistics on this Wikipedia page, I think it is pretty clear that those are numbers of Saramaka people, not people who speak the language. Maybe we can assume that every Saramaka person speaks the language, and nobody else does, but I think it is foolish to use that as a source.--137.43.183.225 (talk) 16:33, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Linguistic interest
[edit]This language is interesting to some people because it derives more from English than it does from any other single language, yet it has zero mutual spoken intercomprehensibility with any form of standard English... AnonMoos (talk) 04:01, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
foreign relations
[edit]- And by the Surinamese people who are living in the 12 English-speaking Caribbean nations of which all 12 have a foreign relationship with the Republic of Suriname:
What, if anything, does this mean? —Tamfang (talk) 19:52, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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