Bahamas Creole English
A language of Bahamas
| Population | 225,000 in Bahamas (1987). |
| Region | Also in United States. |
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Creole Languages of the Northern Caribbean |
| Alternate names | Bahamian Creole English, Bahamian Dialect |
| 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 USA English usage to creole (Todd and Hancock 1986). |
| Classification | Creole, English based, Atlantic, Eastern, Northern |
| Language development | Dictionary. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | Christian. |
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