Maroon was a term used to refer to a runaway slavery in the West Indies, Central America, South America, and North America. Descendants of Maroon populations are found in Jamaica, Colombia, the Amazon River Basin and the American states of Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia .... ethnic group living in the forested interior of Suriname
Suriname
Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname is a country in northern South America. Originally, the country was spelled Surinam by English settlers who founded the first colony at Marshall's Creek, along the Suriname River, and was Geographical renaming Nederlands Guyana, Netherlands Guiana or Dutch Guiana.... , and the eponymous
Eponym
An eponym is a person, whether real or fictitious, after whom a particular toponym, ethnonym, regnal year, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named.... term for their language, which has less than 1,000 speakers. They are mostly descended from former slaves, although their culture displays plenty of Amerindian influences. The language is English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa... -based with French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries.... and other influences. It is similar to the languages spoken by the Paramaccan
Paramaccan
The Paramaccan are an ethnic group living in the forested interior of Suriname, and the eponymous term for their language, which has less than 1,000 speakers.... and Kwinti
Kwinti
The Kwinti are an ethnic group living in the forested interior of Suriname, and the eponymous term for their language, which has less than 1,000 speakers.... . See also Ndyuka
Ndyuka
Ndyuk? , also called Aukan, Ndyuk? tongo, Aukaans, or Okanisi, is a creole language of Suriname. Most of the 25 to 30 thousand speakers live in the interior of the country, which is a part of the country covered with tropical rainforests.... .
