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Where is Kwinti spoken?

Kwinti is an Indo-European language, spoken in Suriname. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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  • Sino-Tibetan
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  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
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Where Kwinti is spoken

Kwinti is spoken in one country: Suriname.

Country
Suriname

On the map, Kwinti is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Kwinti.

How many people speak Kwinti?

Wikidata gives about 130 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 1980). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Kwinti sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Kwinti as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. North Sea Germanic
  7. Anglo-Frisian
  8. Anglic
  9. Later Anglic
  10. Middle-Modern English
  11. Macro-English
  12. Guinea Coast Creole English
  13. Surinamese Creole English
  14. Eastern Maroons
  15. Ndyuka
  16. Kwinti

Related languages

Other languages in the Ndyuka group:

More about Kwinti

Codes: ISO 639-3 kww, Glottolog kwin1243. Glottolog macroarea: South America.

Questions about Kwinti

Where is Kwinti spoken?

Kwinti is spoken in Suriname. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

How many people speak Kwinti?

Wikidata gives about 130 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 1980). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Kwinti in?

Glottolog places Kwinti in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic, Later Anglic, Middle-Modern English, Macro-English, Guinea Coast Creole English, Surinamese Creole English, Eastern Maroons and Ndyuka.

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