Argentinia
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== Sranan Tongo ==
=== Etymology ===
Possibly coined by a Jehovah’s Witnesses translation team, from Spanish Argentina, from Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus, in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river"); likely influenced by Dutch Argentinië.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /aɾxenˈtinia/, /aɾɣenˈtinia/, [a̠ɾxɪ̞nˈtinia̠], [ɑ̟ɾxe̝nˈtiniɑ̟]
=== Proper noun ===
Argentinia
(rare, literary) Argentina (a country in South America)
Synonym: Argentinië
==== Usage notes ====
Except for a limited number of countries, Sranan Tongo speakers use Dutch-language country names as unadapted borrowings.