Kwinti language

Kwinti is an English-based creole of Suriname closely related to Ndyuka.^[2] The language has less than 300 speakers,^[3] and split from Plantation Creole which is nowadays known as Sranan Tongo in the middle 18th century.^[4] Code-switching with Sranan Tongo and Dutch was common among the younger generation in 1973,^[5] and about 70% of the tribe have moved to the urban areas.^[6] UNESCO considers the language endangered.^[7]

Kwinti
Native to	Suriname
Ethnicity	Kwinti
Native speakers	250 (2018)[1]
Language family	English Creole Atlantic Suriname Kwinti
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kww
Glottolog	kwin1243

In the 1970s, Jan English-Lueck collected a vocabulary of 500 words. Unlike the Ndyuka languages, the letter r is spoken in a similar way to Sranan Tongo and Dutch, although speakers without r have been discovered later. About three quarters of the words were cognate to Sranan Tongo, very few (circa 3%) were cognate to Matawai, and about 17% were not found in the other creoles and mainly originated from Dutch.^[8] The differences can be explained by education, because according to a 2011 study the population of Witagron had a good command of both Dutch and Sranan Tongo.^[9]