Belizean Creole language in the context of Belizean Creole people


Belizean Creole language in the context of Belizean Creole people

⭐ Core Definition: Belizean Creole language

Belizean Creole (Belize Kriol, Kriol) is an English-based creole language spoken by the Belizean Creole people. It is closely related to Moskitian Creole, San Andrés-Providencia Creole, and Jamaican Patois.

Belizean Creole is a contact language that developed and grew between 1650 and 1930, initially as a result of the slave trade. Belizean Creole, like many Creole languages, first started as a pidgin. It was a way for people of other backgrounds and languages, in this case slaves and English colonisers within the logging industry, to communicate with each other. Over generations the language developed into a creole, being a language used as some people's mother tongue.

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Belizean Creole language in the context of Moskitian Creole

Mosquitian Creole is an English-based creole language spoken in Mosquitia, with approximately 100,000 speakers.It is nearly identical to, and mutually intelligible with Belizean Creole, and maintains a high degree of intelligibility with all other Caribbean English. Although sometimes classified as a dialect of Jamaican Patois, this classification remains disputed. The language incorporates significant lexical and phonological influences from the Miskito language as well as from West and Central African languages.

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Belizean Creole language in the context of Mosquitian Creole

Miskito Coast Creole is an English-based creole language spoken in coastal Honduran and Nicaraguan regions of Mosquito Coast on the Caribbean Sea; its approximately 100,000 speakers are spread over the Gracias a Dios Department of Honduras and RACCN and RACCS regions of Nicaragua. Mosquito is the nickname that is given to the region and earlier residents by early Europeans who visited and settled in the area. The term "Miskito" is now more commonly used to refer to both the people and the language.

Miskito creole is nearly identical to, and hence mutually intelligible with, Belizean Creole, and retains a high degree of intelligibility with all other Central American English creoles. It is also sometimes classified as a dialect of Jamaican Patois creole but this classification has been disputed. It also includes influences from the Miskito language and West/Central Africa.

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