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Caribbean English (CE, [note 3] CarE) is a set of dialects of the English language which are spoken in the Caribbean and most countries on the Caribbean coasts of Central America and South America. Caribbean English is influenced by, but is distinct to the English-based creole languages spoken in the region.
The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ih-BEE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b i æ n / KARR-ih-bee-an; [4] Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies.
Barbadian English is fully rhotic and full of glottal stops.One example of Barbadian English would be the pronunciation of departments, which is [dɪˈpaːɹʔmənʔs].It is also notable, in comparison with standard American or British English, for the first vowel in price or prize.
Bajan is the Caribbean creole with grammar that most resembles Standard English. [2] There is academic debate on whether its creole features are due to an earlier pidgin state or to some other reason, such as contact with neighbouring English-based creole languages. [3]
from the Inuktitut word saimo (ᓴᐃᒧ Inuktitut pronunciation:, a word of greeting, farewell, and toast before drinking. [113] Used as a greeting and cheer by the Canadian Military Engineers , and more widely in some parts of Southern Ontario and Western Canada, particularly in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [ citation needed ]
After the Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea is the second-most-polluted sea. Pollution in the form of up to 300,000 tonnes of solid garbage dumped into the Caribbean Sea each year is progressively endangering marine ecosystems, wiping out species, and harming the livelihoods of local people, who rely primarily on tourism and fishing.
Anguilla is a flat, low-lying island of coral and limestone in the Caribbean Sea, measuring some 16 miles (26 km) long and 3.5 miles (6 km) in width. [7] It lies to the east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin , separated from that island by the Anguilla Channel .
The Ta-Arawakan languages, also known as Ta-Maipurean and Caribbean, are the Indigenous Arawakan languages of the Caribbean Sea coasts of Central and South America. They are distinguished by the first person pronominal prefix ta-, as opposed to common Arawakan na-.