Rama Cay Creole
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| Rama Cay Creole | ||
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| Spoken in: | Nicaragua | |
| Region: | Rama Cay | |
| Total speakers: | approx. 900 | |
| Language family: | Chibchan/Misumalpan/Indo-European Creole language Miskito Coastal Creole/Rama/English Rama Cay Creole |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | bzk – Nicaraguan Creole English | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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.
[edit] References
- 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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