Vincentian Creole
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Vincentian Creole is an English-lexified creole language
spoken in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
. The number of speakers of Vincentian Creole is about 100 000. Vincentian Creole does not have the status of an official language.
Creole language
A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language developed from the mixing of parent languages; creoles differ from pidgins in that they have been nativized by children as their primary language, making them have features of natural languages that are normally missing from...
spoken in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....
. The number of speakers of Vincentian Creole is about 100 000. Vincentian Creole does not have the status of an official language.
See also
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- Trinidadian Creole
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