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Where is Bahamas Creole English spoken?

Bahamas Creole English is an Indo-European language, spoken in the Bahamas. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Bahamas Creole English is spoken

Bahamas Creole English is spoken in one country: the Bahamas.

Country
Bahamas

On the map, Bahamas Creole English is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Bahamas Creole English.

How many people speak Bahamas Creole English?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Bahamas Creole English sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Bahamas Creole English as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. North Sea Germanic
  7. Anglo-Frisian
  8. Anglic
  9. Later Anglic
  10. Middle-Modern English
  11. Macro-English
  12. Guinea Coast Creole English
  13. Caribbean English Creole
  14. Eastern Caribbean Creole
  15. Gullah-Nevis-Antigua
  16. Gullah
  17. Bahamian Gullah
  18. Bahamas Creole English

Related languages

Other languages in the Bahamian Gullah group:

More about Bahamas Creole English

Codes: ISO 639-3 bah, Glottolog baha1260. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Bahamas Creole English

Where is Bahamas Creole English spoken?

Bahamas Creole English is spoken in the Bahamas. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Bahamas Creole English in?

Glottolog places Bahamas Creole English in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic, Later Anglic, Middle-Modern English, Macro-English, Guinea Coast Creole English, Caribbean English Creole, Eastern Caribbean Creole, Gullah-Nevis-Antigua, Gullah and Bahamian Gullah.

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