Tobagonian Creole

Tobagonian Creole
Tobagonian dialect
Native to Tobago
Native speakers
300,000 (2011)[1]
English Creole
  • Atlantic

    • Eastern
      • Southern
        • Tobagonian Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tgh
Glottolog toba1282[2]
Linguasphere 52-ABB-at

Tobagonian is an English-based creole language and the generally spoken language in Tobago. It is distinct from Trinidadian Creole and closer to other Lesser Antillean creoles.

See also

References

  1. Tobagonian Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tobagonian Creole English". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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