The University of the West Indies. 2013. "Berbice Dutch Creole." In Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages, Online: http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/ciel/pages/berbicedutch.htm.
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
Domain Of Use 5
Used only in a few very specific domains, such as in ceremonies, songs, prayer, proverbs, or certain limited domestic activities.
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
Speakers
Location and Context
Berbice Dutch Creole is a language formerly widely spoken in the former Dutch colony of Berbice, which became in the early 19th century part of the British colony of British Guiana, now Guyana. The last speakers of this language were found in the 1970s by Ian Robertson, living on the upper reaches of the Berbice River in and around the area of the Wiruni Creek.