Turks and Caicos Islands Creole
- Turks and Caicos Islands Creole
Infobox Language
name=Turks and Caicos Creole
states=Turks and Caicos Islands
speakers=
familycolor=Creole
fam1=Creole language
fam2=English Creole
fam3=Atlantic
fam4=Eastern
iso2=
iso3=tch
notice=nonotice
Turks and Caicos Islands Creole is an English-based creole spoken in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the West Indies southeast of the Bahamas.
Turks and Caicos Islands Creole is similar to other Caribbean English creoles and is almost identical to Bahamian Creole. These languages draw on African grammar while using a largely English vocabulary. The number of speakers of Turks and Caicos Islands Creole is around 10,000. [Ethnologue report for [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tch Turks and Caicos Creole English] ] Turks and Caicos Islands Creole does not have the status of an official language.
Notes and references
ee also
*Bajan
*Bermudian English
*Jamaican Creole
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