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Rama Cay Creole
Native to
Nicaragua
Region
Rama Cay
Native speakers
(630 cited 1989)[1]
Language family
English Creole
Atlantic
Western
Miskito Coast Creole
Rama Cay Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Linguist List
bzk-ram
Glottolog
None
IETF
bzk-u-sd-nias
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.
^Nicaraguan Creole English at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
RamaCayCreole is a Creole language spoken by some 800 to 900 people on the island of RamaCay in eastern Nicaragua. It is based on Miskito Coast Creole...
The number of speakers on RamaCay island was only 4 in 1992, due to language shift to English that engendered RamaCayCreole. Nicaraguan Sign Language...
to Rama as the "Tiger language". As a result of this animosity, the population that inhabits RamaCay today speaks a unique version of Rama-Creole which...
official languages are Creole (Miskito Coast Creole and RamaCayCreole), Miskito, Sumo (Mayangna and Ulwa), Garifuna, and Rama, in addition to the national...
RamaCay is an island in the Bluefields Lagoon on the eastern coast of Nicaragua. During the 17th or 18th century, the more powerful Miskito awarded the...
American English dialects like the Belizean Creole (Kriol), or the Mískito Coastal Creole and RamaCayCreole spoken in Nicaragua However, the English that...
people speak their Chibchan language fluently, with nearly all Ramas speaking RamaCayCreole and the vast majority speaking Spanish. Linguists have attempted...
neighboring Central American countries. RamaCayCreole is a variety of the language spoken by the Rama people on RamaCay, an island in the Bluefields Lagoon...
languages are spoken in the region, with English Creole and Spanish being dominant. The Pearl Cays archipelago is also a part of the South Caribbean...
by Indigenous and creole languages such as Miskito, Rama, Sumo, Miskito Coastal Creole, Jamaican Patois, Garifuna and RamaCayCreole but Spanish has become...
Coast CreoleRamaCayCreole Bocas del Toro Creole Puerto Rican English Virgin Islands Creole Saban English Vincentian English Vincentian Creole Iyaric...
The Rama language is one of the indigenous languages of the Chibchan family spoken by the Rama people on the island of RamaCay and south of lake Bluefields...
are mostly Afro-descendant Creoles, Miskitu, Mestizo, as well as smaller communities of Garinagu, Chinese, Mayangna, and Rama. Bluefields is the chief Caribbean...
their children in English, German, or Miskito. Miskito Coast Creole, an English-based creole language, came about through frequent contact with the British...
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