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Topic: Paramaccan


  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Paramaccan
Paramaccan is the linguistic entity of the eponymuous tribe in Suriname.
The Paramaccans live in the interior of the country which is a part of the country mainly covered with forests.
Paramaccan is an English-based entity with less than a thousand speakers.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Paramaccan   (77 words)

  
 SILEWP 1996-003
The phenomenon with which this paper is concerned is a morphophonological one, both synchronically unusual and diachronically puzzling.
Each of these is spoken by a society of escaped slaves formed during the mid to late eighteenth century (Price 1976:31), now living in eastern Suriname in close proximity to and in continual contact with the Ndyukas.
Finally, Kwinti is another creole of central Suriname, resembling Saramaccan and Matawai in some ways and Ndyuka, Paramaccan, and Aluku in some ways (Huttar 1988; but see Smith 1993 for a reappraisal).
www.sil.org /silewp/1996/003/silewp1996-003.html   (4090 words)

  
 Marowijne tour
In the heart of the Amazon jungle is a river where the fish grow large enough to feed on deer and the tribesmen use piranha for bait.
A journey trough impressive rapids in the Marowijne river to the tribe of the Paramaccans.
Afterwards, you will get the opportunity to go to the Ampoma falls one of the biggest rapids in the Marowijne River by boat, where you can swim and have lunch under guidance of the local guides and crew.
www.mayedusuriname.com /dynamicPage.asp?id=104   (246 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Suriname
Population includes 14,353 Aukan, 33 Aluku, 1,156 Paramaccan (1980 census).
Kwinti is further removed from Aukan than are Aluku and Paramaccan.
Dialects: Further removed from Ndyuka than Aluku and Paramaccan.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Suriname   (327 words)

  
 Ndyuka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It presently has somewhat less than a hundred thousand speakers.
Among the varieties of Ndyuka are Paramaccan and Aluku.
The Afaka script was devised for Ndyuka in 1908.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ndyuka   (117 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:DJK
It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
15,542 in Suriname, including 14,353 Aukan, 33 Aluku, 1,156 Paramaccan (1980 census).
Aluku has more French influence than Paramaccan does.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=DJK   (124 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Surinam
(NDJUKÁ, NJUKÁ, NDYUKÁ, "DJUKA", "DJOEKA", AUKAN, OKANISI) [DJK] 25,000 or more in both countries, including 1,000 to 2,000 Aluku, 2,000 to 3,000 Paramaccan (1991 L. Shanks SIL); 6,000 to 10,000 in French Guiana (1990 UN).
Any spelling of Ndyuka without the initial nasal is considered derogatory.
Further removed from Aukaans than Aluku and Paramaccan.
www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Suri.html   (693 words)

  
 ODIN results for language Aukan (DJK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
List of documents and pages with Interlinear examples for Aukan (DJK)
(Alternate names and dialects for Aukan are "Djoeka", "Djuka", Aloekoe, Aluku, Aukaans, Boni, Ndjuká, Ndyuka, Njuká, Okanisi, and Paramaccan)
The results presented here represent data found on the Web that contain suspected instances of Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT).
csufresno.edu /odin/igt_urls.php?lang=DJK   (210 words)

  
 AbsoluteCaribbean, hotel discount, aruba, bonaire, curacao, jamaica, trinidad, tobago, costa rica, surinam, venezuela, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Real adventurers can participate in a jungle track tour along the eastern border of Surinam, on rivers and through the dense Amazon rainforest.
Apart from adventurous trips through the jungle, you will also learn more about the culture of the Paramaccan and Aucan maroon tribes.
Transfer and check in at Lions Dive and Beach Resort.
www.absolutecaribbean.com /djunglesur.htm   (2648 words)

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