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Preferred term

bjsBajan  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Bajan is an English-based creole language spoken on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Bajan, like many other English-based Caribbean creole languages, consists of a West African substrate and an English superstrate. Bajan is similar but distinguishable from the creoles of neighbouring Caribbean islands, as many of the other Caribbean creoles are theorized to have Hiberno-English or Scottish English as their superstrate variety, for example Jamaican Patois.

Entry terms

  • Bajan Creole

ISO 639-3 code

  • bjs

Notation

  • bjs

In other languages

  • Bajan

    Italian

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bjs

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