Rama Cay Creole

Rama Cay Creole

Infobox Language
name=Rama Cay Creole
states=Nicaragua
region=Rama Cay
speakers=approx. 900
familycolor=American
fam1=Chibchan/Misumalpan/Indo-European Creole language
fam2=Miskito Coastal Creole/Rama/English
lc1=bzk|ld1=Nicaraguan Creole English|ll1=Rama Cay Creole

Rama Cay Creole is a Creole language spoken by some 8-900 people on the island of Rama Cay in eastern Nicaragua. It is based on Miskito Coastal Creole with additional elements of the Chibchan language Rama and purportedly some elements of English spoken with a German accent. The creolization of the language is supposed to have happened when Moravian missionaries who were native Germans but preached in English enouraged the Rama-speaking population of the island to shift to English.

References

* [http://www.sil.org/silesr/2001/004/SILESR2001-004.pdf Report on Miskito Coast Creole with a short mention of Rama Cay Creole]
*Assadi, Barbara, 1983, Rama Cay Creole English, pp. 115-122 in Holm, John A, Ed. 1983 Central American English. Varieties of English around the World. T2. Heidelberg: Gross. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.


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