Die Creol Taal: 250 Years of Negerhollands Texts

by Cefas van Rossem, Hein van der Voort

Negerhollands is the original creole language, lexically closely related to Dutch, of the Virgin Islands. It emerged as a separate language around 1700 and died out completely only a few years ago, having gradually been replaced by English in the course of the nineteenth century. Apart from giving information about the history and the features of this language, this book is an attempt to document the various phases of Negerhollands and make texts accessible to a wider public.

325 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1996