Concept information
Preferred term
bzjBelizean Creole
Type
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Language
Definition
- Belizean Creole English, known as Kriol by its speakers, is an English-based creole language most closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole, Limón Coastal Creole, Colón Creole, San Andrés and Providencia Creole, Guyanese Creole, Jamaican Patois and English creoles of the Caribbean show similarity as well. Kriol has about 400,000 speakers, in Belize (where it is the lingua franca and is spoken by 70% of the population) and in the Belizean diaspora, mostly in the United States.
Entry terms
- Belizean Kriol language
- Belize Kriol English
- Kriol English, Belize
ISO 639-3 code
- bzj
Notation
- bzj
In other languages
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Portuguese
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Criollo beliceño
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bzj
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