Languages of Barbados
See language map.[See also SIL publications on the languages of Barbados.]
Barbados. 292,000. National or official language: English. Literacy rate: 98%–99%. Immigrant languages: American Sign Language. Deaf institutions: 2. The number of individual languages listed for Barbados is 2. Of those, both are living languages.
| Bajan | [bjs]
259,000 (1995).
Alternate names: Barbadian Creole English.
Dialects: Less than 20 lexical items traceable to African origin. Shares lexical eatures with Caribbean creoles.
Classification: Creole, English based, Atlantic, Eastern, Southern
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| English | [eng]
13,000 in Barbados (1995).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
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