Kwinti people

The Kwinti are a "Maroon" Businenge ethnic group, descendants of runaway African slaves, living in the forested interior of Suriname on the bank of the Coppename River, and the eponymous term for their language, which has less than 1,000 speakers. Their language is an English-based creole with Portuguese and other influences. It is similar to the languages spoken by the Aluku and Paramacca Maroons.

References

Hoogbergen, Wim (1992). Origins of the Suriname Kwinti Maroons, New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 66, no: 1/2, Leiden, 27-59, KITLV. Green, E.C., The Matawai Maroons: An Acculturating Afro American Society, PhD. dissertation, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1974.

Ancestry and ethnicity in Suriname

Indigenous	Arawak Lokono Carib Akurio Kali'na Sikiana Tiriyó Wayana Warao

Non-Indigenous	African Maroons Kwinti Ndyuka Paramaccan Saramaka Brazilian Chinese Dutch Indian Javanese Jewish Portuguese

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Kwinti people

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