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Rama Cay Creole

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Native to
  
Nicaragua

Native speakers
  
(630 cited 1989)

Glottolog
  
None

Region
  
Rama Cay

Linguist list
  
bzk-ram

Language family
  
English Creole Atlantic Western Miskito Coast Creole Rama Cay Creole

Rama Cay Creole is a Creole language spoken by some 800 to 900 people on the island of Rama Cay in eastern Nicaragua. It is based on Miskito Coast Creole with additional elements of the Chibchan language Rama and purportedly some elements of English spoken with a German accent. The creolization of the language is supposed to have happened when Moravian missionaries who were native Germans but preached in English encouraged the Rama-speaking population of the island to shift to English.

References

Rama Cay Creole Wikipedia


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