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Where is Bajan spoken?

Bajan is an Indo-European language, spoken in Barbados. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Bajan is spoken

Bajan is spoken in one country: Barbados.

Country
Barbados

Bajan has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Bajan?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Bajan sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Bajan 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. Barbados-Eustatius
  16. Barbados-Trinidad
  17. Bajan

Related languages

Other languages in the Barbados-Trinidad group:

More about Bajan

Codes: ISO 639-3 bjs, Glottolog baja1265. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Bajan

Where is Bajan spoken?

Bajan is spoken in Barbados. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Bajan in?

Glottolog places Bajan 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, Barbados-Eustatius and Barbados-Trinidad.

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