question: What type of language is spoken by people from Suriname?
answer: Dravidian
context: Title: Ndyuka language
  Passage: Ndyuka , also called Aukan, "Okanisi, Ndyuka tongo", Aukaans, "Businenge Tongo" (considered by some to be pejorative), Eastern Maroon Creole, or "Nenge" is a creole language of Suriname, spoken by the Ndyuka people.  The speakers are one of six Maroon peoples (formerly called "Bush Negroes") in the Republic of Suriname and one of the Maroon peoples in French Guiana.  Most of the 25 to 30 thousand speakers live in the interior of the country, which is a part of the country covered with tropical rainforests. Ethnologue lists two related languages under the name "Ndyuka".
  Title: Surinamese Dutch
  Passage: Surinamese Dutch (Dutch: "Surinaams-Nederlands", ] ) is the form of Dutch spoken in Suriname, a former Dutch colony.  Dutch is spoken as a native language by about 60% of the population, most of them being bilingual with Sranan Tongo, Saramaccan, Hindustani, and other languages.  Nevertheless, Dutch is the sole official language of the country.  Surinamese Dutch is easily intelligible with other forms of Dutch.  Furthermore, as opposed to other languages that have different forms in the Americas (e.g., American English vs. British English) the regulation and thus standardised spelling of the Dutch language is done through a joint Dutch-Belgian-Surinamese organization, the Dutch Language Union, and thus has no regional differences regarding spelling.  Suriname has been an associate member of this Nederlandse Taalunie since 2005.  Therefore, many typical Surinamese words were added to the official Wordlist of Standard Dutch, known as "the Green Booklet" ("Groene Boekje").
  Title: Saramaccan language
  Passage: Saramaccan (autonym: "Saamáka") is a creole language spoken by about 58,000 ethnic African people near the Saramacca and upper Suriname River, as well as in the capital Paramaribo, in Suriname (formerly also known as Dutch Guiana), 25,000 in French Guiana, and 8,000 in the Netherlands.  It has three main dialects.  The speakers are mostly descendants of fugitive slaves who were native to West and Central Africa; they form a group called Saamacca, also spelled Saramaka.
  Title: Sikiana language
  Passage: Sikiana, or Kashuyana, is a Carib language that was spoken by 33 people in Brazil and 15 people in Suriname.  It was spoken in Venezuela at one time and is now probably extinct there.  The Warikyana dialect became extinct around 2000, and the language frequently goes by the name of the surviving dialect, Sikiana.
  Title: Dougla
  Passage: Dougla (or Dugla) is a word used by people especially in Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, and Guyana.  It is used to describe people who are of mixed African and Indian/South Asian descent.
  Title: Bhojpuri region
  Passage: The Bhojpuri region is an area encompassing parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in northern India and the Bara and Parsa districts of Nepal where the Bhojpuri language is spoken as a mother tongue language.  Ujjainiya Rajputs of the former Shahabad district of ancient Bihar established their headquarters in the town of Arrah, Bhojpur district from where the whole region received its name.  Bhojpuri is also spoken in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica, the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, and South Africa.  It is one of the national languages of Nepal and is recognized in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Mauritius, and Suriname.  It is an official language of Fiji.  The variant of Bhojpuri of the Indo-Caribbeans in the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and other parts of the Caribbean) is referred to as Caribbean Hindustani.  In Mauritius a dialect of Bhojpuri remains in use, and it is locally called Bojpury.  In Fiji the variant of Bhojpuri is Fiji Hindi, which is also extensively influenced by Awadhi .  There is also a variant of Bhojpuri that is also spoke in South Africa.
  Title: Bhojpuri language
  Passage: Bhojpuri (Devanagari: भोजपुरी    ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Northern-Eastern part of India and the Terai region of Nepal.  It is chiefly spoken in eastern Uttar Pradesh, western Bihar, and in extreme north-western part of Jharkhand in India.  Bhojpuri is, sociolinguistically, one of the seven Hindi languages (Haryanvi, Braj, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Bundeli, Bagheli and Kannauji).  Bhojpuri is one of the recognized national languages of Nepal and has official status in Fiji as Fiji Hindi.  It is also a recognized language in Guyana, Suriname, and Mauritius.  According to People's Linguistic Survey of India, Bhojpuri is the fastest developing language of the world.
  Title: Warao language
  Passage: Warao (also known as Guarauno, Guarao, Warrau) is the native language of the Warao people.  A language isolate, it is spoken by about 28,000 people primarily in northern Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname.  It is notable for its unusual object–subject–verb word order.  The 2015 Venezuelan film "Gone with the River" was spoken in Warao.
  Title: Tamil language
  Passage: Tamil ( ; தமிழ் "Tamiḻ " ] ,    ) is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and also by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians. Tamil is an official language of two countries, Sri Lanka and Singapore.  It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry.  It is also used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia, along with English, Malay and Mandarin.  Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.  It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.
  Title: Hindustani language
  Passage: Hindustani (Hindustani: , '"of Hindustan"' ), historically also known as Hindavi, Dehlavi and Rekhta, is the "lingua franca" of North India and Pakistan.  It is an Indo-Aryan language, deriving its base primarily from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi.  The language incorporates a large amount of vocabulary from Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic.  It is a pluricentric language, with two official forms, Modern Standard Hindi and Modern Standard Urdu, which are its standardised registers, and which may be called Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu when taken together.  The colloquial registers are mostly indistinguishable, and even though the official standards are nearly identical in grammar, they differ in literary conventions and in academic and technical vocabulary, with Urdu adopting stronger Persian and Arabic influences, and Hindi relying more heavily on Sanskrit.  Before the Partition of the British Indian Empire, the terms "Hindustani, Urdu," and "Hindi" were synonymous; all covered what would be mostly called Urdu and Hindi today.  The term "Hindustani" is still used for the colloquial language and the "lingua franca" of North India and Pakistan, for example for the language of Bollywood films, as well as for several quite different varieties of Hindi spoken outside the Indian Subcontinent, such as Fiji Hindi of Fiji and the Caribbean Hindustani of Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, and the rest of the Caribbean.  Hindustani is also spoken by a small number of people in Mauritius and South Africa.
citations: Dougla Tamil language