24 augustus 1923
Surinamekade, Amsterdam
Vrijdag 24 Augustus
Om 12 uur ’s middags voor Scheveningen. Ongeveer 2 uur de pieren v. IJmuiden binnengevaren. Door allerlei oponthoud pas om 7 uur aan de Surinamekade, Amsterdam.
Via Wikimedia Commons: Surinamekade, prentbriefkaart, Collectie Stadsarchief Amsterdam: prentbriefkaarten, 1935.
Tussen 19 november 2022 en augustus 2023 toon ik op deze website mijn transcriptie van het dagboek van de expeditie van De Josselin de Jong; elke dag honderd jaar nadat het door hem in zijn notitieboek is genoteerd. Meer informatie is op deze website te vinden, net als zijn publicaties die online beschikbaar zijn.
This diary is of course not only of interest or importance for Dutch speakers, but especially for the people of the US Virgin Islands and the islands which were visited by De Josselin de Jong. This is why I try to use my spare time to translate this text into English.
De tekst is (voorlopig) zonder aanpassingen genoteerd en laten dus de taal en de opvattingen zien zoals die aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw gewoon waren. Verschillende pagina’s van dit dagboek zijn inclusief aanvullend materiaal door mij voorgelezen in de podcast Di hou creol en de desbetreffende afleveringen zijn via deze website natuurlijk nog te beluisteren en te bekijken.
Het dagboek wordt bewaard in de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, in de collectie Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde:
Josselin de Jong, J.P.B. 1922-1923. Dagboek betr. expeditie naar de Antillen 19 Nov. 1922 – 24 Aug. 1923. 20 x 29 cm, 157 pp.
>EN: Diary on expedition to the Antilles. >UBL: Collection KITLV, signature: OR 385 (5-6).
die creol taal 
Special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language!
Only a few days ago editors Kristoffer Friis Boegh (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, University of Aarhus, Danmark) and Peter Bakker (University of Aarhus) published the special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language: Vol. 15 No. 2 (2024): Special issue: Pidgins, creoles, and language contact in Danish and Dutch colonial contexts.
No less than five articles are dedicated to aspects of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole, its history and metalinguistic matters:
Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis & Peter Bakker. 2024, Decmber 20. ‘Pidgins, creoles, and language contact in Danish and Dutch colonial contexts, a presentation of the special issue.’In: Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis & Peter Bakker (eds). 2024. Pidgins, creoles, and language contact in Danish and Dutch colonial contexts. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language. Vol. 15, No. 2. 2024. Pp. 1-15. > Pidgins, creoles, and language contact in Danish and Dutch colonial contexts: A presentation of the special issue | Scandinavian Studies in Language
Rossem, Cefas van. 2024. ‘The suspicion confirmed, J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong’s 1923 linguistic fieldwork in St. Thomas and St. John on Virgin Islands Dutch Creole’ In: Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis & Peter Bakker (eds.). 2024, December 20. Pidgins, creoles, and language contact in Danish and Dutch colonial contexts. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language. Vol. 15, No. 2. Pp. 16-55. > The suspicion confirmed: J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong’s 1923 linguistic fieldwork in St. Thomas and St. John on Virgin Islands Dutch Creole | Scandinavian Studies in Language
Stein, Peter. 2024. ‘Grammaticography of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole (Negerhollands) from the Danish West Indies, Oldendorp and Magens’ In: Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis & Peter Bakker (eds.). 2024, December 20. Pidgins, creoles, and language contact in Danish and Dutch colonial contexts. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language. Vol. 15, No. 2. Pp. 180-197. > Grammaticography of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole (Negerhollands) from the Danish West Indies: Oldendorp and Magens | Scandinavian Studies in Language
Appel, Charlotte, Peter Bakker & Joost Robbe. 2024. ‘Initiating reading in Creole.’ In: Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis & Peter Bakker (eds.). 2024, December 20. Pidgins, creoles, and language contact in Danish and Dutch colonial contexts. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language. Vol. 15, No. 2. Pp. 198-239. > Initiating reading in Creole: Contents and contexts of primers in the Danish West Indies, 1770–1825 | Scandinavian Studies in Language
Robbe, Joost & Peter Bakker. 2024. ‘A grammatical and graphematic comparison of five Creole primers from the Danish West Indies (1770-1825), with a preliminary phonemic inventory.’In: Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis & Peter Bakker (eds.). 2024, December 20. Pidgins, creoles, and language contact in Danish and Dutch colonial contexts. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies in Language. Vol. 15, No. 2. Pp. 240-288. > A grammatical and graphematic comparison of five Creole primers from the Danish West Indies (1770–1825), with a preliminary phonemic inventory | Scandinavian Studies in Language
Please visit this link: https://tidsskrift.dk/sss/issue/view/11790 to also see which other articles were published in this digital volume!
Hopefully I will soon have the possibility to get into these articles.
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