about things that happen to us." A suku di soni te wojo fëën ko bëë."He searched for it in vain." Mi puu tu dusu kölu bai ën."I paid two thousand guilders to buy it." Examples of words originally from Portuguese or a Portuguese creole are mujee () "woman", womi () "man", da () "to give", bunu () "good", kaba () "to end", ku () "with", kuma (, cf. vernacular Brazilian for , "come again?") "as, like", faka () "knife", aki () "here", ma () "but", kendi () "hot", liba () "above", and lio () "river". Literature Saramaccan has a rich history of published works, including the following dictionaries: Christian Schumann's 1778, Saramaccanisch Deutsches Worter-Buch, Johannes Riemer's 1779 Wörterbuch zur Erlernung der Saramakka-Neger-Sprache, a copied and edited version of Schumann, Jan Voorhoeve and Antoon Donicie's 1963 wordlist, De Saramakaanse Woordenschat, Antoon de Groot's, Woordregister Nederlands- Saramakaans met context en idioom (1977) and his Woordregister Saramakaans-Nederlands (1981), and Glock (ed) Holansi-Saamaka wöutubuku (Nederlands-Saramaccaans woordenboek) The Instituut voor Taalwetenschap has published tens of literacy books and collections of folktales written by Saramaccans and a complete translation of the New Testament. Two books written by Richard Price have now been published in Saamakatongo: Fesiten and Boo go a Kontukonde. Alison Hinds of Barbados based her up tempo soca song Faluma on the language. The Saramaccan orthography created by the Summer Institute of Linguistics is not in universal use. Linguist Vinije Haabo is developing a Saramaccan dictionary based on an improved orthography, which he intends to publish online. References Sources External links Saramaccan Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database) Survey article (from the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures) SIL Saramaccan-English dictionary Collected Saramaccan texts Loan words in Saramaccan Variety of published resources in and about Saramaccan language and culture English-based pidgins and creoles Languages of Suriname Languages of French Guiana Tonal languages Portuguese-based pidgins and creoles Saramaka Languages of the African diaspora Portuguese language in the Americas Creoles of the Americas English language in the Americas