Culture of Suriname

The speakers of the languages of this country divide themselves between about fifteen languages whose most important surinamien containing English (120 000) is the creole also called sranan tongo, the Hindi called “sarnami hondi” or “Hindustani” (150 000), the Javanese called “Javanese surinamien” (60 000), the Guianese Creole (50 000), some Amerindian languages of which the aukaans (25 000) and the Creole saramaccan (23 000), Chinese hakka (6000), the Dutch (1000), etc Précisons that more than 120.000 speakers speak the Creole surinamien or sranan tongo like language second and 100.000, the Dutch.