Mar 08
Berbice Dutch Creole

In 2003, linguist Hubert Devonish met Bertha Bell, then aged 103, the last known speaker of Berbice Dutch Creole, one of the Caribbean’s indigenous languages. Mrs. Bell died in 2005, and in March 2010, Berbice Dutch Creole was officially declared extinct.

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