Rama Cay Creole

Rama Cay Creole
Native to	Nicaragua
Region	Rama Cay
Native speakers	unknown (630 cited 1989)^[1]
Language family	English Creole Atlantic Western Miskito Coast Creole Rama Cay Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist list	`bzk-ram`
Glottolog	None

Rama Cay Creole is a Creole language spoken by some 800 to 900 people on the island of Rama Cay in eastern Nicaragua. It is based on Miskito Coast 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 encouraged the Rama-speaking population of the island to shift to English.

References

↑ Nicaraguan Creole English at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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.

Languages of Nicaragua

Official language	Spanish

Indigenous languages	Garifuna Miskito Rama Sumo

Creole languages	Miskito Coast Rama Cay

Sign languages	Nicaraguan Sign Language

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