Re: [tied] Other IE language with /w/

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 41448
Date: 2005-10-15

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:46:08 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>I've heard a rapper from Suriname use plain /w/ for written
>Dutch /w/. I suspected this was from an earlier Dutch pronunciation,
>but Miguel disputes that Dutch was spoken in Suriname until recently.

The native language of the Surinam creoles (blacks) is
Sranan Tongo, a creole based on English. It has /w/, and so
does the Dutch spoken in Surinam. This has nothing to do
with earlier Dutch pronunciation.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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