Negerhollands

Negerhollands
Creole Dutch
RegionU.S. Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
Extinct1987, with the death of Alice Stevens
Dutch Creole
  • Negerhollands
Latin (Dutch alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3dcr
Glottolognege1244

Negerhollands ('Negro-Dutch') was a Dutch-based creole language that was spoken in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands. Dutch was its superstrate language with Danish, English, French, Spanish, and African elements incorporated. Notwithstanding its name, Negerhollands drew primarily from the Zeelandic rather than the Hollandic dialect of Dutch.