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Creole spoken in Montserrat

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Montserrat Creole
Native to	Montserrat
Native speakers	7,600 in Montserrat (2001) many left after the eruption of Soufriere in 1995
Language family	English Creole Atlantic Eastern Southern Northern Antilles Antiguan and Barbudan Creole Montserrat Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	`aig-MS`
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Montserrat Creole is a dialect of Antiguan and Barbudan Creole 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.

References

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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