Home to 2 dialects represented on Dialect Atlas, spanning 2 language families.
The Dutch of Suriname. The official language of the country, used alongside Sranan Tongo and other languages of the Surinamese plurilingual landscape.
also: Sranan
An English-based creole of Suriname, used as the country's lingua franca alongside Dutch. Strong substrate from Gbe and Akan languages of the West African slave trade.