Bahamas Creole English

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A language of Bahamas

ISO 639-3
bah
Alternate Names
Bahamian Creole English, Bahamian Dialect
Population

225,000 in Bahamas (1987).

Location

Also in United States.

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Language Status

6a (Vigorous). De facto language of national identity.

Classification
Creole, English based, Atlantic, Eastern, Northern
Dialects

Good comprehension of Sea Island Creole [gul]. Very similar to Sea Island Creole [gul] and Afro-Seminole [afs] of USA (Hancock 1980). Major differences with Sea Island are in phonology, a few words, regional expressions, grammatical differences (verbal markers). There is a spectrum of varieties from standard American English usage to creole (Todd and Hancock 1986).

Language Development
Dictionary.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Bahamas Creole English
Writing
Latin script.
Other Comments

There is a continuum of variation from basilectal Creole to acrolectal English [eng] of the educated. Christian.