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Sranan Tongo

Sranan Tongo proper noun: an English-based creole language and lingua franca in Suriname; its approximately 126,000 native speakers are predominantly ethnic Creoles.

Proper noun

Sranan Tongo

  1. An English-based creole language and lingua franca in Suriname; its approximately 126,000 native speakers are predominantly ethnic Creoles.

Origin of Sranan Tongo

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo Sranan Tongo, from Sranan (“Suriname”) + tongo (“tongue, language”).

Questions about Sranan Tongo

What does Sranan Tongo mean?
Sranan Tongo means an English-based creole language and lingua franca in Suriname; its approximately 126,000 native speakers are predominantly ethnic Creoles.
What part of speech is Sranan Tongo?
Sranan Tongo is a proper noun.

Words near Sranan Tongo in the dictionary

  1. sramans
  2. Sramek
  3. Srameks
  4. SRAMs
  5. Sranan
  6. Sranan Tongo
  7. Sranantongo
  8. srang
  9. srangs
  10. SRAs
  11. Sras.

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