Languages of Dominican Republic
See language map.[See also SIL publications on the languages of Dominican Republic.]
República Dominicana. 9,470,000. National or official language: Spanish. Literacy rate: 68%–94%. Immigrant languages: Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Japanese (1,500), North Levantine Spoken Arabic (3,000), Southwestern Caribbean Creole English (22,000). Also includes Chinese (25,000). Blind population: 5,000. Deaf population: 474,490. Deaf institutions: 3. The number of individual languages listed for Dominican Republic is 4. Of those, all are living languages.
| Dominican Sign Language | [doq]
Dialects: Lexical similarity: 85%–90% with ASL [ase], and uses most of the features of ASL, such as absent referent and reduplication.
Classification: Deaf sign language
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| English | [eng]
8,000 in Dominican Republic (Holm 1989). Samaná Peninsula, northeastern Dominican Republic.
Dialects: Samaná English.
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
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| Haitian | [hat]
159,000 in Dominican Republic (1987).
Alternate names: Creole, Haitian Creole.
Classification: Creole, French based
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| Spanish | [spa]
6,890,000 in Dominican Republic (1995).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian
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