Negerhollands
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Negerhollands ('Negro-Dutch', also known by the contemporary and more neutral name Virgin Islands Creole Dutch) was a Dutch-based creole language that was spoken in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands. Dutch was its superstrate language with Danish, English, French, Spanish, and African elements incorporated. Notwithstanding its name, Negerhollands drew primarily from the Zeelandic and probably also from the closely related West Flemish, rather than the Hollandic, dialects of Dutch.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Negerhollands
- Language.altname
- Creole Dutch
- Language.region
- U.S. Virgin IslandsBritish Virgin Islands
- Language.extinct
- 1987, with the death of Alice Stevens
- Language.familycolor
- Creole
- Language.fam1
- Dutch Creole
- Language.iso3
- dcr
- Language.glotto
- nege1244
- Language.glottorefname
- Negerhollands
- Language.script
- Latin (Dutch alphabet)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- natural language
- Subclass of
- Zeelandic
- Country
- British Virgin Islands
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- indigenous to
- Danish West Indies
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
- topic's main category
- Category:Negerhollands language
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Encyclopedic overview
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Negerhollands ('Negro-Dutch', also known by the contemporary and more neutral name Virgin Islands Creole Dutch) was a Dutch-based creole language that was spoken in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands. Dutch was its superstrate language with Danish, English, French, Spanish, and African elements incorporated. Notwithstanding its name, Negerhollands drew primarily from the Zeelandic and probably also from the closely related West Flemish, rather than the Hollandic, dialects of Dutch.
== History == thumb|Map of today's US Virgin Islands. Negerhollands emerged on the islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John, the upper two islands highlighted on the map.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Negerhollands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.