Bajan Creole facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Bajan |
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| Native to | Barbados | |||
| Native speakers | 259,000 (date missing) | |||
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English Creole
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| Linguasphere | 52-ABB-ar | |||
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Bajan is an English-based creole language. People on the Caribbean island of Barbados speak it. Bajan, like many other English-based Caribbean creole languages, has a West African substrate and an English superstrate. Bajan is similar but different from the creoles of neighbouring Caribbean islands.
Bajan is the Caribbean creole with the closest grammar to Standard English.
In general, the people of Barbados speak standard British English on TV and radio, in courthouses, in government, and in day-to-day business. Bajan is for less formal situations, in music, or in social commentary.
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