SKW ISO 639-3
Skepi Dutch Creole
A language of Guyana
- ISO 639
- skw
- Population
- No known L1 speakers. Last speakers survived into the 1990s (Holm 1989).
- Location:
- Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region.
- Language Status
- 10 (Extinct).
- Classification
- Creole, Dutch based
- Dialects
- Essequibo. Not inherently intelligible with Berbice Dutch Creole [brc] or the Rupununi dialect of Guyanese English Creole [gyn]. Lexical similarity: 52% with Berbice Dutch Creole [brc].
- Language Use
- By 1998 had no remaining speakers.
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region.
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