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Where is Virgin Islands Creole English spoken?

Virgin Islands Creole English is an Indo-European language, spoken in Sint Maarten, the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin and 1 more. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Virgin Islands Creole English is spoken

Virgin Islands Creole English is spoken in 5 countries: Sint Maarten, the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin and 1 more. 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
Sint Maarten6.7%3,096
British Virgin IslandsNot givenNot given
Puerto RicoNot givenNot given
Saint MartinNot givenNot given
United States Virgin IslandsNot 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.

Virgin Islands Creole 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 Virgin Islands Creole English?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language. The table above has rough per-country estimates from Unicode CLDR.

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 Virgin Islands Creole English sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Virgin Islands 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. Barbados-Eustatius
  16. Virgin Islands Creole English

More about Virgin Islands Creole English

Codes: ISO 639-3 vic, Glottolog virg1240. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Virgin Islands Creole English

Where is Virgin Islands Creole English spoken?

Virgin Islands Creole English is spoken in Sint Maarten, the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin and 1 more. Unicode CLDR puts it at 6.7% of the population of Sint Maarten, which is about 3,096 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Virgin Islands Creole English in?

Glottolog places Virgin Islands 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 and Barbados-Eustatius.

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