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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Label Occurrences
Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles group canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cluster of English-based creole languages
language group
closelyRelatedTo Leeward Caribbean English creoles
surface form: 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 Creole English
surface form: Antiguan and Barbudan Creole English

Bajan Creole
Caribbean Creole
surface form: Dominican Creole English

Grenadian Creole English
Guyanese Creole
surface form: Guyana Creole English

Kittitian Creole English
Atlantic English Creole
surface form: 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 alphabet
surface form: Latin script
languageFamily English creole
originPeriod colonial era
primaryLexifier English
region Caribbean
Lesser Antilles
spokenIn Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Barbados
British Virgin Islands
Dominica
Grenada
British Guiana
surface form: Guyana

Montserrat
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
U.S. Virgin Islands
surface form: United States 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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vincentian Creole English belongsTo Southern Lesser Antillean English creoles group