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Montserrat Creole
Native to
Montserrat
Native speakers
7,600 in Montserrat (2001)[1] many left after the eruption of Soufriere in 1995
Language family
English Creole
Atlantic
Eastern
Southern
Northern Antilles
Leeward Caribbean Creole English
Montserrat Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
None
IETF
aig-MS
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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.[2][3]
^Montserrat Creole at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
^"Montserrat Creole - an Irish brogue?". www.phon.ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2024-05-26. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
^"Montserrat | Facts, Map, & History | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Archived from the original on 2022-10-17. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
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