(last updated 2009-09-09) LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1.
Name of requester: Pascal Vaillant 2. E-mail address of
requester: pascal.vaillant at guyane.univ-ag.fr 3. Record
Requested: Type: variant Subtag: ndyuka Description: Ndyuka
dialect Description: Aukan dialect Prefix: djk Comments: Ndyuka
dialect of the "Busi Nenge Tongo" English-based Creole continuum
in Eastern Suriname and Western French Guiana 4. Intended
meaning of the subtag: The variant subtag 'ndyuka' is intended
to mean the Ndyuka dialect (sometimes also called Aukan) of the
Nenge English-based Creole language of Eastern Suriname, spoken
in large parts of Eastern Suriname and in the border regions of
French Guiana. English-based Creole languages have emerged in
Suriname among maroon communities (escaped slaves of African
descent) since the early 18th century. They depart from the
mainstream English-based Creole of Suriname, Sranan Tongo, by
some linguistic innovations (such as phonetic changes), and by a
smaller influence of Dutch, languag