Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles group

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The Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles group is a cluster of closely related English-based creole languages spoken in the southern Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean.

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Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles group canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cluster of English-based creole languages
language group
closelyRelatedTo Northern Lesser Antillean English creoles group
developedFrom contact between English and West African languages
plantation contact situations in the Caribbean
hasPart Anguillian Creole English
Antiguan and Barbudan Creole English
Bajan Creole
Dominican Creole English
linked to: Caribbean Creole

Grenadian Creole English
Guyana Creole English
linked to: Guyanese Creole

Kittitian Creole English
Montserrat Creole English
Nevisian Creole English
Saint Lucian Creole English
Tobagonian Creole English
Trinidadian Creole English
Vincentian Creole English
Virgin Islands Creole English
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
languageFamily English creole
originPeriod colonial era
primaryLexifier English
region Caribbean
Lesser Antilles
spokenIn Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Barbados
British Virgin Islands
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
linked to: British Guiana

Montserrat
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
United States Virgin Islands
linked to: U.S. Virgin Islands

southern Lesser Antilles
subclassOf Atlantic English-lexifier creoles
Caribbean English creoles
English-based creole languages
typologicalFeature SVO word order
reduction of inflectional morphology
use of preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers
usedAlongside Standard English
usedAs vernacular language

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Vincentian Creole English belongsTo Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles group