Appendix 1
1. Creoles Around the World inclusive of Caribbean Creoles. Taken From Creoles of the World.
Mainly English Vocabulary Mainly Dutch Vocabulary
Jamaica St.Vincent Guyana South Africa(Afrikaans)
Barbados Belize
Trinidad Guyana
Tobago Suriname
Grenada Gambia
Montserrat Sierra Leoone
Antigua Papua New Guinea
Mainly French Vocabulary
Haiti Trinidad
Guadeloupe Guyana (French Guyana)
Dominica Seychelles
Martinique Mauritius
St.Lucia Reunion
St.Vincent Louisiana (USA)
Grenada
Mainly Portuguese Vocabulary
Curacao
Aruba
Bonaire
Suriname
Brazil
Cape Verde
Mainly Spanish Vocabulary
Curacao
Aruba
Bonaire
Suriname Senegal
Brazil Guinea- Bissau
Cape Verde Sao Tome& Principe
Mainly Spanish Vocabulary
Curacao (also Dutch influence)
Aruba (also has Dutch influence)
Bonaire (also has Dutch influence
Philippines
Appendix 2
Historical Groupings: Source: Wilkipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (2005).
Most islands at some point were, or still are, colonies of European nations:
British West Indies / Anglophone Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica (also French Creole speaking), Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia (also French Creole speaking), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands .
Danish West Indies - present-day United States Virgin Islands .
Dutch West Indies - present-day Netherlands Antilles and Aruba .
French West Indies - Anguilla (briefly), Antigua and Barbuda (briefly), Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Montserrat (briefly), Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius (briefly), St Kitts and Nevis (St Kitts, but not Nevis), Trinidad and Tobago (Tobago only), present-day U.S. Virgin Islands (Saint Croix only, briefly), and the current French overseas départements of Martinique and Guadeloupe (including Saint-Barthélemy and northern half of Saint Martin)
Spain - Cuba, Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti), Puerto Rico
Appendix 4
Language Profile of Caribbean Territories
Country
|
Language Situation
|
Official Language
|
Mass Vernacular
|
Minority Languages
|
Major 2nd Language
|
Language Planning Activity
|
|
Cuba
|
Monolingual
|
Spanish
|
Spanish
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Dominican Republic
|
Monolingual
|
Spanish
|
Spanish
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Puerto Rico
|
Monolingual
|
Spanish
|
Spanish
|
|
English
|
|
|
Barbados
|
Monolingual
|
English
|
English
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
Jamaica
|
Continuum
|
English
|
English Creole
|
-
|
-
|
Growing awareness of the creole as symbol of national identity.
|
|
Guyana
|
Continuum
|
English
|
English Creole
|
Hindi, Amerindian
|
|
As for Jamaica
|
|
Antigua
|
Continuum
|
English
|
|
English Creole
|
_
|
_
|
|
St.Kitts
|
Continuum
|
English
|
English Creole
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
St.Vincent
|
Continuum
|
English
|
English Creole
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Belize
|
Multi-lingual
|
English
|
English Creole
|
Spanish, Mayan, Garifuna
|
|
Creation of bi-lingual population in English and Spanish
|
|
Trinidad
|
Multilingual
|
English
|
(Post Creole English)
|
French Creole, Spanish, Bhojpuri
|
|
-
|
|
Grenada
|
Dying Bilingual
|
English
|
English (influenced by French Creole)
|
French Creole rapidly receding.
|
|
|
|
St Lucia.
|
Bilingual
|
English
|
French Creole
|
|
|
Incipient Standardization of French Creole
|
|
Dominica
|
Bilingual
|
English
|
French Creole
|
-
|
-
|
As for St Lucia
|
|
Haiti
|
Diglossic
|
French
|
Haitian
|
|
|
Standardization
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Of Haitian
|
|
French West Indies
|
Diglossic
|
French
|
French Creole
|
|
|
Incipient t Standardization of French Cr.
|
|
Surinam
|
Multilingual
|
Dutch
|
Sranan
|
Javanese, Hindi, Ndjuka
Saramaccan, Amerindian
|
-
|
Incipient Standardization
Of Sranan.
|
|
Netherlands
Antilles
|
Bilingual
|
Papiamentu
Dutch
|
Papiamentu
|
-
|
English, Spanish
|
Advanced
Standardization
of Papiamentu
ntu
English
Replacing
Dutch as international language
|
|
U.S Virgin Islands
|
Bidialectal
|
English
|
Postcreoel English
|
Small pocket of French in st. Thomas
|
-
|
-
|
|
British Virgin ISLANDS
|
Bidialectal
|
English
|
Post Creole
(English)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Dutch Virgin Islands
|
Bilingual
|
Dutch
|
Post Creole
English
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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