No, it is NOT an acceptable name to use because other languages are also spoken widely in Surinam such as
Saramaccan,
Is an inland language not commonly used outside the jungle areas that Saramaccaners live in. Not a nationally widely spoken language
Aukan,
Aucaners same situation as Saramacaners.
Guyanese,
Definately not spoken in most of Surinam and as the name suggest it is not a Surinamese language.
Javanese,
Only spoken by people of Indonesian background and as the name suggest it is not a Surinamese language.
Chinese,
Only spoken by people of Chinese background and as the name suggest it is not a Surinamese language.
and Native American languages.
There are about 10.000 of those, they are not even acknowledged in the Surinamese flag with its five points which stand for the five most important ethniticities.
These are just as much "Surinamese" as Sranan.
No they are not. Sranan is what binds most of the population together with Dutch .... so what is next you are going to call Moroccan a Dutch language because people in the Netherlands speak Moroccan? Or Dutch a Thai language because there are Dutch people in Thailand? All of these languages are not Surinamese. They happen to be spoken in the country of Surinam yes. There is but one Surinamese and that is Sranan Tongo.
So while "Sranan" does indeed mean "Surinamese", the name "Sranan" is also used in English to distinguish it from other languages of Surinam.
Well I am not a native Oxford-English or American-English or whatever English speaker but I still have my doubts about that.
<>Well, you're one person, and "rusty I admit though" is not comforting at all. And what about Papiamento??
How comforting is it for me to see you requesting many languages you never spoke or heard of? If we go in that road of argumenting. My 4 years in Surinam are a lot more comforting. And no I do not speak Papiamentu.
Who decides if wikipedias get created? You? It sometimes seems like it.
You know very well it isn't me.
Precisely but your reactions on this list and elsewhere always show that you feel you should be the one who is deciding. 6 people support NDS-NL among which 2 native speakers. And you oppose and because you oppose you feel you can obstruct the whole progress because your "demands" weren't met. Frankly I am getting a littlebit tired of your "every language has to go by me" attitude. You are doing lots of good work in the languagefield. But destroying it by your behaviour.
It's the decision of the developers, ultimately, although if a board member or somebody else high up in the organisational structure decides it should be created, the developer will usually create it for them.
So maybe I should go to a board member instead of discussing with you here! Good alternative indeed. Thanks for your understanding.
Waerth/Walter