Talk:Demographics of Suriname

Information about Indigenous American Languages Added
I added some information about the indigenous languages of Suriname. It's mainly a copy-and-paste of the info used on the Suriname article.

I felt it's only fair that we should add a section on the languages of Suriname's indigenous people. Ourdearbenefactor (talk) 05:00, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Dutch
Let's see: it is claimed that Dutch is the first language for 60% of people in Suriname (about 80% in some studies), and that it is spoken as a second language by most of the rest of the population. If this is true, how is it that nearly everybody uses Sranan as a lingua franca in quotidianity? When a language is so highly prevalent in a society as theoretically Dutch is in Surinam, there is no need of any other one to be used as a lingua franca; the official and hegemonic language is used instead. Otherwise: if nearly everyone knows Dutch, and the most have it as their first language, why not use it in everyday interactions? Could it be that the nativization in Dutch is ideologically overclaimed? Maybe the prestige of the high and official language, Dutch, supersedes its real use or even fluent knowledge?FerranLup (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 21:01, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Dutch, bis
In short: either Dutch is the first language for 60/80 % of Surinamese, or Sranan is widely used as a lingua franca in Suriname. Both statements are mutually inconsistent.FerranLup (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:25, 17 December 2021 (UTC)