Dialect of the English language used in Trinidad and Tobago
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Trinidadian and Tobagonian English
Region
Trinidad and Tobago
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
North Sea Germanic
Anglo–Frisian
Anglic
English
Caribbean English
Trinidadian and Tobagonian English
Early forms
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Dialects
Trinidadian English Creole
Tobagonian English Creole
Writing system
Latin (English alphabet) Unified English Braille[1]
Official status
Official language in
Trinidad and Tobago (de facto)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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IETF
en-TT
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Trinidadian and Tobagonian English (TE) or Trinidadian and Tobagonian Standard English is a dialect of English used in Trinidad and Tobago. TE co-exists with both non-standard varieties of English as well as other dialects, namely Trinidadian Creole in Trinidad and Tobagonian Creole in Tobago.
^"Unified English Braille (UEB)". Braille Authority of North America (BANA). 2 November 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
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