Berbice Dutch Creole

A language of Guyana

ISO 639: brc
Population: No known L1 speakers. Last speaker, Princess Sauers, died in 2015.
Location:: East Berbice-Corentyne and Upper Demerara-Berbice regions.
Language Status: 10 (Extinct).
Classification: Creole, Dutch based
Dialects: May not be inherently intelligible with Skepi Dutch Creole [skw] or the Rupununi dialect of Guyanese English Creole [gyn]. About one-third of the basic lexicon and most of the productive morphology is from Izon [ijc] in Nigeria; most of the rest of the lexicon is from Dutch [nld], 10% loans from Arawak [arw] and Guyanese English Creole.
Typology: SVO.
Language Development: Dictionary. Grammar.
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Berbice Dutch Creole
Writing: Unwritten [Qaax].

Location: East Berbice-Corentyne and Upper Demerara-Berbice regions.