Meaning of talkee-talkee | Babel Free

Definitions

A creole, especially the Anglo-Dutch language spoken in Demerara and elsewhere in what is now Guyana and Suriname.

historical, uncountable

Examples

“The talkee-talkee of the slaves in the sugar islands, as it is called, will prevail at Surinam, and become the language of Guiana. They have a printed bible in it already.”

“The talkee-talkee of a North-American Indian, and the song of Deborah, might each have stood as the model.”

“It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge.”

“Surinam (Dutch Guiana)[…]Dutch, English, Javanese, "talkie-talkie".”

“The interpreter did not speak Toyo’s language but rather what the court calls “Taki-Taki - more properly called Sranan-tongo, the Creole language of coastal Suriname.”

CEFR level