Talk:Sranan Tongo

message: A request for a Wikipedia in Sranan has been posted to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Sranan. If you are a (native) speaker of Sranan and/or want to support this new Wikipedia you can add your accountname on meta to this request list. Gebruiker:Dedalus 12:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia in Sranan

message: Srely sme mistake. I am a linguist and I have never seen the spelling Sranang. The form Sranan (with or without Tongo, I don't care) is overwhelmingly more common: so shouldn't the redirect go the other way?
:Fixed. --Khoikhoi 06:00, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sranan, not Sranang, srely?

message: my uncle john's bathroom reader calender claims that "The Taki language, spoken in parts of Guinea, consists of only 340 words". is there any truth to this?
: Your uncle john's bathroom reader calender is wrong, if it's about Sranan language: just have a look on this Sranan-English dictionary. It may be about another "Taki" language spoken in Papua New Guinea, but I don't know anything about it. Croquant 20:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks. i knew a wikipidean would be able to debunk that uncle's john's dubious claims.216.234.58.18 20:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: only 340 words?

message: Is Sranan Tongo an Indo-European language? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.183.100.8 (talk • contribs) 06:39, June 4, 2007
: The widespread self-image is that Sranan is English-based (hence the slightly derogative nickname Negro English), with West-African, Portugese loan words, with severe language 'pollution' by Dutch in the capital Paramaribo. In Paramaribo resides the largest number of speakers. This influence, not surprisingly, decreases with distance. IMO, Sranan Tongo is not only an Indo-European language, but belongs to the Germanic branch as well.
--Brian Tjoe-Nij (talk) 14:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just wondering the same. The sentence is totally unsourced, unclear and dubious. Rather than slapping the citation needed, clarify and dubious tags on it, I'll just get rid of it. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 22:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

text: Thank you a lot! God bless you too! --Eleassar my talk 21:03, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Is Sranan Tongo an Indo-European language?=

message: What the crap does this even mean?  How can it be the mother tongue of all creole languages?76.87.160.171 08:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just wondering the same. The sentence is totally unsourced, unclear and dubious. Rather than slapping the citation needed, clarify and dubious tags on it, I'll just get rid of it. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 22:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: "It is the mothertongue of the Creoles"

message: I doubt it is incorrect, I know a Javanese from Suriname who is taught "Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Taki Taki and speaks Javanese". She lived almost her whole life there, how can she be wrong? Mallerd (talk) 15:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taki Taki 

message: You kow all i want to know is just a few facts about West Africa, that is like were is Tongo located, amount of population in Tonog, what they farm, there way of life and the surrounding villages around Tongo. that is all so why cant you just simpely  tell me these few things that is all that i wish......OK  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.178.118.156 (talk) 05:22, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  All I Want To Know 

message: While the introduction to the article states the number of people who speak the language is 400,000 approximately, the infobox mentions a total number of 300,000. Which is the true one? --Izmir2 (talk) 04:36, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  3 or 4? 

message: Hi, can someone please translate the message in the image :File:Surinamscina Dezela kozolcev.jpg that I've added to the article? Thanks a lot. --Eleassar my talk 15:49, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you a lot! God bless you too! --Eleassar my talk 21:03, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation request

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message: Near the beginning of the article it says that 85% of the vocabulary come from English and Dutch, then later on that 85% are from Dutch alone. I'm almost certain that the former statement is the correct one, because the Lord's Prayer contains a lot of English and only very few Dutch words. (I've only identified "hemel", while "owktu" is half Dutch, half English.) Please clarify! 90.186.72.227 (talk) 04:39, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction