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Where is Turks And Caicos Creole English spoken?

Turks And Caicos Creole English is an Indo-European language, spoken in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Turks And Caicos Creole English is spoken

Turks And Caicos Creole English is spoken in 2 countries: the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Country
Bahamas
Turks and Caicos Islands

On the map, Turks And Caicos Creole English is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Turks And Caicos Creole English.

How many people speak Turks And Caicos Creole English?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

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 Turks And Caicos Creole English sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Turks And Caicos 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. Bahamian Gullah
  18. Turks And Caicos Creole English

Related languages

Other languages in the Bahamian Gullah group:

More about Turks And Caicos Creole English

Codes: ISO 639-3 tch, Glottolog turk1310. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Turks And Caicos Creole English

Where is Turks And Caicos Creole English spoken?

Turks And Caicos Creole English is spoken in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Turks And Caicos Creole English in?

Glottolog places Turks And Caicos 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, Gullah and Bahamian Gullah.

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