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Turks and Caicos Creole
Native to
Turks and Caicos Islands
Native speakers
34,000 (2019)[1]
Language family
English Creole
Atlantic
Eastern
Northern
Turks and Caicos Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3
tch
Glottolog
turk1310
Linguasphere
52-ABB-ao
Turks and Caicos Creole is an English-based creole spoken in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a West Indian British overseas territory in the Lucayan Archipelago.
The Turks and Caicos Island Creole variety has not been thoroughly studied but may be directly related to Bahamian Creole as one of its dialects as the two are reportedly highly mutually intelligible. As of 1995, the number of speakers of Turks and Caicos Islands Creole is around 10,700,[2] although decreasing and endangered. It seems to be shifting to a variety form of Caribbean English. Turks and Caicos Islands Creole does not have an official status.
^Turks and Caicos Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Ethnologue report for Turks and Caicos Creole English
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