Bahamas Creole English
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A language of Bahamas
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Bahamian Creole English, Bahamian Dialect
Population
309,000 (2014).
Location
Widespread.
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Language Status
6a* (Vigorous). De facto language of national identity.
Classification
Dialects
None known. Good comprehension of and reportedly very similar to Sea Island Creole [gul] and Afro-Seminole [afs] in the United States (Hancock 1980b). 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.
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Writing
Latin script [Latn].
Christian.