Montserrat Creole | |
States: | Montserrat |
Speakers: | in Montserrat |
Date: | 2001 |
Speakers2: | many left after the eruption of Soufriere in 1995 |
Familycolor: | Creole |
Fam1: | English Creole |
Fam2: | Atlantic |
Fam3: | Eastern |
Fam4: | Southern |
Fam5: | Northern Antilles |
Fam6: | Leeward Caribbean Creole English |
Isoexception: | dialect |
Glotto: | none |
Notice: | IPA |
Ietf: | aig-MS |
Montserrat Creole is a dialect of Leeward Caribbean Creole English spoken in Montserrat.The number of speakers of Montserrat Creole is below 10,000. Montserrat Creole does not have the status of an official language.
A lot of similarities can be found with Jamaican Creole.[1] [2]