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The languages of the Caribbean reflect the region's diverse history and culture. There are six official languages spoken in the Caribbean: . Spanish (official language of Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Bay Islands (Honduras), Corn Islands (Nicaragua), Isla Cozumel, Isla Mujeres (Mexico), Nueva Esparta (Venezuela), the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela and San Andrés ...
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.
The official language of Cuba is Spanish and the vast majority of Cubans speak it. Spanish as spoken in Cuba is known as Cuban Spanish and is a form of Caribbean Spanish. Lucumí, a dialect of the West African language Yoruba, is also used as a liturgical language by practitioners of Santería, [341] and so only as a second language. [342]
English is the official language of Dominica, universally spoken and understood. In addition, Dominican Creole , a form of Antillean Creole based on French , is widely spoken. This is due to French migration to the island starting in 1690, a majority French Creole-speaking population that resided on the island, [ 101 ] and its location between ...
The language, however, was not widespread in Aruba until the 18th and 19th centuries when most materials on the island and Roman Catholic schoolbooks were written in Papiamento. Dutch has been one of the official languages of the island for years as the island is a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. However, Dutch is the sole language for ...
Category: Languages of the Caribbean by country. 3 languages. ... Languages of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (4 P) T. Languages of Trinidad and Tobago (11 P)
The Cariban languages share irregular morphology with the Jê and Tupian families. Ribeiro connects them all in a Je–Tupi–Carib family. [citation needed] Meira, Gildea, & Hoff (2010) note that likely morphemes in proto-Tupian and proto-Cariban are good candidates for being cognates, but that work so far is insufficient to make definitive statements.
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