Hello from Venezuela!!
So, some friends and I are making a cover of a Medley with 60+ songs in it and we've decided to make each song of the Medley in a language from The Americas (mosts songs have Spanish, English, Portuguese and French lyrics but I wanted to also integrate the smaller languages of our continent too). So I want to know if there's someone who can help us translate ONE of the songs into Sranan Tongo (and give us also how to pronounce it).
Quite the challenge, and how to pronounce it, ay Dios mio. You want Dutch too?
Maybe in a future, right now I want to secure as many languages as possible before going to the "big" ones.
And yeah, I imagine that pronunciation wise is quite different from Spanish (or Portuguese which is my friend's native language) but! we will try our best!
Which songs were you looking to translate?
I'm gonna DM you with the info
Which song do you want translated ?
This could prove very difficult!
Suriname is not only sranang tongo.
I beg the differ that sranang tongo is THE suriname language. Since its only creole while suriname has a bigger Hindustani (indian) population, a big Javanese and Chinese population and lets not forget the true Suriname people, the native indians.
If you want to do it right, make a song with all their languages.
I refuse to accept the creole based sranang tongo as the mother tongue of suriname.
I would rather accept dutch as the mother tongue
I'd be glad to add any of those if I could find any person who can translate the lyrics I need. I asked for Sranan tongo because I thought that language was more widespread across Suriname
Most widespread in suriname is dutch. Second is sranang tongo because its forced upon everyone 3rd is sarnami (hindustani indian) 4th is english 5th is javanese 6th is chinese 7th is native indian
I see... So, would you help to translate some lyrics into some of those languages? I'd be glad to add them