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Most languages spoken in the Caribbean are either European languages (namely Spanish, English, French, and Dutch) or European language-based creoles. Spanish speakers are the most numerous in the Caribbean by far, with over 25 million native speakers in the Greater Antilles. English is the first or second language in most of the smaller ...
Languages of the Caribbean by dependent territory (9 C). Creoles of the Caribbean (2 C, 19 P) / Languages of Saint Martin (island) (1 C, 5 P) E.
Category: Languages of the Caribbean by country. 3 languages. ... Languages of Saint Kitts and Nevis (3 P) Languages of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4 P) T.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Caribbean Netherlands: 5 1 6 0.08 18,540 3,708
At the time of Spanish contact, it was the most common language throughout the Caribbean. Classic Taíno (Taíno proper) was the native language of the Taíno tribes living in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, Boriken also known as Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos Islands, most of Ayiti-Kiskeya also known as Hispaniola, and eastern Cuba.
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
The Spanish language was introduced to the Caribbean in 1492 with the voyages of Christopher Columbus. It resembles the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands, and, more distantly, the Spanish of western Andalusia. With more than 25 million speakers, Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the Caribbean Islands.
Languages of the Dutch Caribbean (3 C, 1 P) A. Languages of Anguilla (1 P) Languages of Aruba (2 C, 3 P) B. Languages of Bonaire (2 C, 1 P)