Berbice Dutch Creole

The video takes you on a journey to Berbice in Guyana with the linguist, Hubert Devonish, as tour guide. Here we meet Bertha Bell who, at the age of 103, was the last known speaker of Berbice Dutch Creole, a dead, or almost dead language. This video is one in a series of 7 UNESCO sponsored videos created by the Jamaican Language Unit/Unit for Caribbean Language Research at the University of the West Indies, documenting Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages, at the website http://www.caribbeanlanguages.org.jm.