UNESCO/JLU - Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages, The University of West Indies at Mona

		Audio Clips	Photos	Language List	Country List	Linguistic Maps

	Survey of Indigenous Languages

Specially Featured Languages >> Arawak | Garifuna | Kromanti | Saramaccan | Berbice Dutch Creole

skepi dutch creole

Skepi Creole Dutch An extinct language of Guyana
Population	Extinct.
Region	Essequibo Region.
Dialects	Essequibo. Speakers said it was not inherently intelligible with Berbice or Rupununi. Lexical similarity 52% with Berbice.
Classification	Creole, Dutch based
Language use	Became extinct by 1998.


	Source Information [SIL, Ethnologue]