Negerengels

Etymology
lit. 'Negro English', compound of 🇰🇲.

Proper noun

 * 1)   an English-based creole language and lingua franca in Suriname

Usage notes

 * Started to be superseded by in the 1960s. In Suriname, still used colloquially, mainly by older speakers who are not ethnic Creoles, without an overtly pejorative meaning, or sometimes by ethnic Creoles who do not identify with the language, in which case it may have a pejorative undertone. Might be perceived by some speakers as the correct Dutch equivalent of informal . Obsolete and possibly offensive in all other contexts.