Country Info

Suriname Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 560,547 people (95% of Suriname) that can read or write at least one language.

3 Writing Systems used in Suriname

Dutch (Latin)

nl-latn
language code
532,727
people

Sranan Tongo (Latin)

srn-latn
language code
402,504
people

Chinese (Traditional)

zh-hant
language code
7,103
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR