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Where is Sea Island Creole English spoken?

Sea Island Creole English is an Indo-European language, spoken in the United States. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Sea Island Creole English is spoken

Sea Island Creole English is spoken in one country: the United States.

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United States

Sea Island Creole English has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Sea Island Creole English?

Wikidata gives about 550 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 1990). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Sea Island Creole English sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Sea Island Creole English as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. North Sea Germanic
  7. Anglo-Frisian
  8. Anglic
  9. Later Anglic
  10. Middle-Modern English
  11. Macro-English
  12. Guinea Coast Creole English
  13. Caribbean English Creole
  14. Eastern Caribbean Creole
  15. Gullah-Nevis-Antigua
  16. Gullah
  17. Sea Island Creole English

Related languages

Other languages in the Gullah group:

More about Sea Island Creole English

Codes: ISO 639-3 gul, Glottolog gull1241. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Sea Island Creole English

Where is Sea Island Creole English spoken?

Sea Island Creole English is spoken in the United States. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Sea Island Creole English?

Wikidata gives about 550 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given, 1990). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Sea Island Creole English in?

Glottolog places Sea Island Creole English in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic, Later Anglic, Middle-Modern English, Macro-English, Guinea Coast Creole English, Caribbean English Creole, Eastern Caribbean Creole, Gullah-Nevis-Antigua and Gullah.

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