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While Dutch is the official language of government, business, media, and education, Sranan Tongo, an English-based creole language, is a widely used lingua franca. Suriname is the only sovereign nation outside Europe where Dutch is spoken by a majority of the population. As a legacy of colonization, the people of Suriname are among the most diverse in the world, spanning a multitude of ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups. | While Dutch is the official language of government, business, media, and education, Sranan Tongo, an English-based creole language, is a widely used lingua franca. Suriname is the only sovereign nation outside Europe where Dutch is spoken by a majority of the population. As a legacy of colonization, the people of Suriname are among the most diverse in the world, spanning a multitude of ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups. | ||
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname] | |||
==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
1954 - Suriname became one of the constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands<br> | |||
1975 - Full independence was granted<br> | |||
1986 - The brutal civil war between the Suriname army and Maroons, more than 10,000 Surinamese, mostly Maroons, fled to French Guiana in the late 1980s<br> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Suriname]] [[Category:History]] | [[Category:Suriname]] [[Category:History]] | ||