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kondri

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Maroon Spirit Language

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Etymology

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From English country. Compare Jamaican Creole konchri, Sranan Tongo kondre, Aukan kondee, Saramaccan köndë, Krio kɔntri.

Noun

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kondri

  1. country

References

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Kenneth M. Bilby (1983) “How the "older heads" talk: a Jamaican Maroon spirit possession language and its relationship to the Creoles of Suriname and Sierra Leone”, in New West Indian Guide, →ISSN, pages 37-88