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Where is Belize Kriol English spoken?

Belize Kriol English is an Indo-European language, spoken in Belize and the United States. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Belize Kriol English is spoken

Belize Kriol English is spoken in 2 countries: Belize and the United States. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Belize50%207,894
United StatesNot givenNot given

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Belize Kriol English 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 Belize Kriol English?

Wikidata gives about 110,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Belize Kriol English sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Belize Kriol 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. Western Caribbean Creole
  15. Miskitoic Creole English
  16. Belize-Miskito Creole English
  17. Belize Kriol English

Related languages

Other languages in the Belize-Miskito Creole English group:

More about Belize Kriol English

Codes: ISO 639-3 bzj, Glottolog beli1260. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Belize Kriol English

Where is Belize Kriol English spoken?

Belize Kriol English is spoken in Belize and the United States. Unicode CLDR puts it at 50% of the population of Belize, which is about 207,894 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Belize Kriol English?

Wikidata gives about 110,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Belize Kriol English in?

Glottolog places Belize Kriol 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, Western Caribbean Creole, Miskitoic Creole English and Belize-Miskito Creole English.

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