Atlantic English Creole

E155063

Atlantic English Creole is a group of related English-based creole languages spoken primarily in coastal regions of the Atlantic, especially in the Caribbean and parts of West Africa.

All labels observed (11)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English-based creole
language group
developedDuring Atlantic slave trade
hasContactOrigin maritime contact situations
plantation contact situations
hasDiachronicProcess creolization
decreolization
hasExampleLanguage Antiguan and Barbudan Creole
Bahamas Creole English
Bajan Creole
Belizean Creole
Grenadian Creole English
Gullah language
linked to: Gullah

Guyanese Creole
Jamaican Patois
Krio language
Ndyuka language
Saint Kitts Creole
Saramaccan
Sranan Tongo
Surinamese English-based creoles
Tobagonian Creole
Trinidadian Creole English
Vincentian Creole
Virgin Islands Creole English
hasLanguageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
hasPrimaryLexifier English language
hasSubfamily West Germanic languages
hasSubstrateLanguages Bantu languages
Kwa languages
West African languages
hasSuperstrateLanguage English language
hasTypicalFeature SVO basic word order
copula deletion in some contexts
lexicon largely derived from English
phonology influenced by African languages
reduction of inflectional morphology
serial verb constructions
use of preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers
spokenIn Caribbean Sea basin
linked to: Caribbean Sea

Gulf of Guinea
spokenInRegion Atlantic coastal regions
Caribbean
Central America
North America
South America
West Africa
studiedInField creole linguistics
sociolinguistics
subclassOf Atlantic Creole
English creole

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Jamaican Patois languageFamily Atlantic English Creole
Jamaican Patois languageFamily Western Caribbean Creole
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Jamaican Patois isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Limonese Creole
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Sarnami Hindustani influencedBy Caribbean English
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Afro-Montserratians language Montserrat Creole English
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
John R. Rickford researchInterest Caribbean English Creoles
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Angolar Creole belongsTo Atlantic creoles
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Atlantic English Creole subclassOf Atlantic Creole
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Barlavento Creoles linguisticTypology Atlantic Creole
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Saint Kitts Creole alternativeName Kittitian English Creole
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Vincentian dialect languageFamily English Creole
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles group hasPart Montserrat Creole English
linked to: Atlantic English Creole
Bajan hasLanguageFamily Atlantic English creole
linked to: Atlantic English Creole