British Virgin Islands
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English
[eng] 2,000 in British Virgin Islands (1998). Status: 1 (National). De facto national language. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English Comments: When Creole languages exist alongside their lexifier language, as in the British Virgin Islands, a continuum forms of variations between the Creole and the lexifier language. It is therefore difficult to substantiate the number of Creole speakers and English speakers.
Virgin Islands Creole English
[vic] 19,700 in British Virgin Islands (2003). Status: 6a (Vigorous). Classification: Creole, English based, Atlantic, Eastern, Southern