Trinidadian Creole English
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Trinidadian Creole English is an English-based creole language spoken in Trinidad and Tobago, characterized by influences from African, French, Spanish, and other linguistic traditions.
Aliases (2)
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-based creole language
→
contact language → creole language → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Grenadian Creole English
→
Guyanese Creole → Tobagonian Creole English → Vincentian Creole → |
| developedFrom |
plantation contact varieties in Trinidad
→
|
| developedInPeriod |
colonial era
→
|
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
absence of copula in some contexts
→
plural marking with post-nominal forms in some varieties → reduced inflectional morphology → tense-aspect marking with preverbal particles → |
| hasLanguageFamily |
English creole
→
|
| hasLexifierLanguage |
English
→
|
| hasPart |
acrolectal varieties
→
basilectal varieties → mesolectal varieties → rural varieties → urban varieties → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
non-rhoticity in many speakers
→
simplified consonant clusters → variable TH-stopping → |
| hasRegion |
Caribbean
→
Lesser Antilles → |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus |
exists on a continuum with Standard English
→
used in informal communication → |
| hasVocabularySource |
African languages
→
Bhojpuri → English → French → French Creole → Hindi → Spanish → |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin script
→
|
| influencedBy |
African languages
→
Bhojpuri → Caribbean indigenous languages → Chinese varieties → French → French Creole → Hindi → Portuguese → Spanish → |
| spokenIn |
Tobago
→
Trinidad → Trinidad and Tobago → |
| subclassOf |
Atlantic English-lexifier creole
→
|
| usedBy |
Afro-Trinidadian population
→
Creole-speaking communities in Trinidad and Tobago → Indo-Trinidadian population → |
| usedIn |
calypso lyrics
→
everyday conversation in Trinidad and Tobago → music in Trinidad and Tobago → soca lyrics → |
Referenced by (7)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Afro-Trinidadian and Tobagonian
("Trinidadian English Creole")
→
Tobagonian → |
language |
|
Trinidad and Tobago
→
Trinidad and Tobago ("Tobagonian Creole English") → |
recognizedLanguage |
|
Bajan Creole
→
|
closelyRelatedTo |
|
Chaguanas
("Trinidadian English Creole")
→
|
commonLanguages |
|
Virgin Islands Creole English
→
|
isRelatedTo |