Saramaccan

[sar-uh-mak-uhn]

noun

1. an English-based creole spoken in the interior of Suriname.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Saramaccan¹

1955–60; Saramacc(a) a river in Surinam (on the upper reaches of which the language is spoken) + -an

Example Sentences

Then we are off again, to fly farther south and east to the Maroon Saramaccan village of Asindopo in the region of the Upper Suriname River.

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