Bay Islands English
E88955
Bay Islands English is an English-based Creole language spoken primarily in Honduras’s Bay Islands, influenced by Caribbean English and local Spanish.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bay Islands Creole | 1 |
| Bay Islands Creole English | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-based creole language
ⓘ
creole language ⓘ language variety ⓘ |
| coexistsWith |
Spanish
ⓘ
Standard English ⓘ |
| country | Honduras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Guanaja
ⓘ
Roatán ⓘ Utila ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bay Islands English
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Islands Creole
Bay Islands English ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Islands Creole English
Bay Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Islas de la Bahía English
|
| hasCodeStatus | often under-documented ⓘ |
| hasContactSituation | intense contact with Spanish in the Bay Islands ⓘ |
| hasDomainOfUse |
informal communication
ⓘ
local media (to a limited extent) ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentStatus | potentially endangered due to shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| hasEthnicAssociation |
Afro-Caribbean communities of the Bay Islands
ⓘ
English-speaking Creole population of the Bay Islands ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Caribbean English
ⓘ
Spanish loanwords ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticFeature | features typical of Caribbean English creoles ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | Caribbean English vowel patterns ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus |
minority language in Honduras
ⓘ
non-official language in Honduras ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Caribbean English
ⓘ
Central American Spanish ⓘ
surface form:
Honduran Spanish
Spanish ⓘ |
| languageFamily | English creole ⓘ |
| lexifierLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Caribbean English creole continuum ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| region | Caribbean ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Belizean Creole
ⓘ
surface form:
Belizean Kriol
Jamaican Patois ⓘ
surface form:
Jamaican Creole English
Miskito Coast Creole English ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Afro-descendant communities in the Bay Islands
ⓘ
descendants of English-speaking settlers in the Bay Islands ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bay Islands
ⓘ
Honduras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| substrateLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| usedAs |
home language
ⓘ
vernacular language ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bay Islands Creole English
this entity surface form:
Bay Islands Creole