Creole languages and their uses: the example of colonial ...
270 Creole languages and their uses: colonial Suriname from the flood of arrivals from Africa, some of them children, who learned to speak it as a second language, and from other processes of language change. 4 Suriname was an English colony from 1650 to 1667. 5 The first settler population at its height was about 1,000 people, many of them coming from other English colonies in the Caribbean ...