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Belizean Creole (Belizean Creole: Belize Kriol, Kriol) is an English-based creole language spoken by the Belizean Creole people. It is closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole , San Andrés-Providencia Creole , and Vincentian Creole .
Pronunciation in Belizean English tends towards Caribbean English, except that the former is non-rhotic. [6] [note 2]In 2013, it was noted that spoken Belizean English is heavily influenced by Belizean Creole, as 'both the lexicon and syntactic constructions often follow creole.' [7] The influence has been deemed strong enough to argue 'that spoken [Belizean] English is simply a register of ...
Belizean Creoles, also known as Kriols, are a Creole ethnic group native to Belize.. Belizean Creoles are primarily mixed-raced descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans who were brought to the British Honduras (present-day Belize along the Bay of Honduras) as well as the English and Scottish log cutters, known as the Baymen who trafficked them.
English is the official language of Belize, a former British colony. It is the primary language of public education, government and most media outlets. According to the 2008 Official Education policy in Belize, children are to be taught when it is appropriate to use Creole, but lessons are not to be taught in Creole language. [5]
It is disputed to what extent the various English-based creoles of the world share a common origin. The monogenesis hypothesis [2] [3] posits that a single language, commonly called proto–Pidgin English, spoken along the West African coast in the early sixteenth century, was ancestral to most or all of the Atlantic creoles (the English creoles of both West Africa and the Americas).
Belizean Creole, English-based creole spoken in Belize; Gullah language, spoken in the coastal region of the US states of North and South Carolina, Georgia and northeast Florida; Guyanese Creole, English-based, spoken in Guyana; Jamaican Patois, English-based creole, spoken in Jamaica; Ndyuka, English-based creole spoken in Suriname, the only ...
The English-based Australian Kriol language The English-based Belizean Creole language, also called Belizean Kriol The English-based Bocas del Toro Creole , or Colón Creole (Kriol), spoken in Panama
Although English is regarded as the preferred form of political and social interaction, a more common vernacular called English Creole is spoken throughout Belize. [8] To speak English Creole means, to those living in Belize, that you are a "born-Belizean." This automatically places you above "outsiders" particularly those of Spanish speaking ...