- Limónese Creole
Limónese Creole (also called Limón Creole English or Mekatelyu) is an
English-based creole language spoken inLimón Province on theCaribbean Sea coast ofCosta Rica . Limón Coastal Creole is similar to varieties such asColón Creole , Mískito Coastal Creole,Belizean Kriol language , andSan Andrés and Providencia Creole. The number of speakers of Limón Coastal Creole is below 100,000 [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=CR] . Limón Coastal Creole does not have the status of an official language. It is very similar toJamaican Creole and has borrowed many words from English.Jamaican Creole was introduced to Limón by
Jamaica n migrant workers who arrived to work on the banana plantations and on the Pacific railway.The name "Mekatelyu" is a transliteration of the phrase "make I tell you", or in standard English "let me tell you".
ee also
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Bajan
*Bermudian English
*Jamaican English Bibliography
*Herzfeld, Ana. "Tense and Aspect in Limon Creole". Kansas: The University of Kansas, 1978.
*Wolfe, Terry. "An Exploratory Study of the Morphology and Syntax of the English of the Province of Limon, Costa Rica". San José: Universidad de Costa Rica, 1970.
*Wright M., Fernando. "Limon Creole: A Syntactic Analysis". San José: Universidad de Costa Rica. 1974.
*Wright M., Fernando. "Problemas y Métodos para la Enseñanza como Segunda Lengua a los Habitantes del Mek-a-tél-yu en la Provincia de Limón". "Revista de la Universidad de Costa Rica", March–Sept. 1982.
*Wright M., Fernando. "Problems and Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language to Limon Creole Speakers". Lawrence: The University of Kansas, 1979.External links
*ethnologue|code=jam|label=Jamaican Creole English
* [http://www.itcr.ac.cr/revistacomunicacion/Vol_2_N_1/mekatelyu.htm "¿Qué es el mek-a-tel-yu?"] by Dora H. de Vargas (in Spanish)
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