South Tussenland Creole: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox language|boxsize=300px|name=<center>South Tussenland Creole|nation=[[South Tussenland]]|fam1=Dutch-based creole Creoleslanguages|stateimage=File:Painting of black woman writing.jpg|imagesize=300px|minority=[[South TussenlandSalvatia]]|nationimagecaption=[[SouthAfia TussenlandBeatriks de Waal]] (1847–1911), the founder of the first purpose-built Kriöl academy at Nieuw-Beverwÿck in 1889.}}

'''South Tussenland Creole''' (''TalTâl SudisendaSaudasenda''; [[Amerikaens]]: ''Suydt-Tussenlandts kriöl''), alsocommonly known as '''Kriöl''' and commonly referred to by its speakers asor '''Sakoro''' ([[South Tussenland Creole#Phonology|[sakɔrɔ]]]), is a [[Dutch language|Dutch]]-based creole language spoken natively by 60–80% of [[South Tussenland]]'s population. It emerged as a distinct language {{circa|1700}}c. 1700 among African slaves of the Lower Mississippi region. ApproximatelyThe fromformation 1850–1920, Creole becameof a language of literature, the [[Zoekerism|Zoekerist faith]], and politics in independentsovereign South Tussenland. Thein early1855 20thbrought centuryabout sawthe many speakers decreolize their speech in favorliterarization of the prestigiouslanguage; its ''[[Amerikaens#Phonology|Juysgolden Mondordt]]age''. Today,is Sakorooften functionsconsidered asto thespan lowerroughly register1850 into a diglossic situation with [[Amerikaens]], mainly being used as a spoken vernacular and the liturgical language of [[Zoekerism]]1920.

The word ''sakoro'' came to be used in reference to the language from the beginning of the 19th century. Three theories on the word's origin, none widely accepted, circulate among the general public and the scholarly class:

* One of many Romance-language terms descending from theThe Latin term ''sacculus'' ('small sack' or 'wine sack') via [[Spanish language|Spanish]].