Talk:Bahamian Creole

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RE. use of the term 'creole'. Bahamian speech is technically a creole due to the hybridiseing of african, english and indigenous words, not a dialect which would be a form of english developed from english only in an isolated community. bahamians have come to be prejudice against the term, when we are by definition a creole society. should we not use it to describe our language?

[edit] Note from Conchstar

This note was taken from the main article page and posted here by me. -- T.o.n.y 14:57, 8 March 2007 (UTC)