San Andrés–Providencia Creole
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| San Andrés and Providencia Creole | |
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| Islander Creole English | |
| Native to | Creole
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | icr |
| Glottolog | sana1297 |
| Linguasphere | 52-ABB-ah |
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San Andrés–Providencia creole is an
Miskito Coastal Creole. Its vocabulary originates in English, its lexifier, but San Andrés–Providencia creole has its own phonetics and many expressions from Spanish and African languages, particularly Kwa languages (especially Twi and Ewe) and Igbo languages. The language is also known as "San Andrés Creole", "Bende" and "Islander Creole English".[1]
Characteristics
- It marks the time. The auxiliar wen (~ben~men) marks a past simple. Future tense is marked with wi and wuda. Progressive tense is marked by de.
- The auxiliars beg and mek before the sentence is a polite way to ask permission or asking something.
- Other auxiliary words before the verb mark probability like maita, mos, mosi, kyan, and kuda; willingness with niid and waan; and obligation with fi, hafi and shuda
- There is no grammatical distinction for gender.
- Plural is marked with dem after the noun.
San Andrés–Providencia Creole is an official language in its territory of influence according to the
Cartagena de Indias and Bogotá for higher education has contributed to the presence of Spanish. However, the interest in preserving the Creole has become very important for locals and Colombians in general. There has been an effort to offer multilingual education in San Andrés and Providencia which includes all three languages.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Ethnologue report for language code: icr". SIL International. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ Ronald Morren. 2010. Trilingual education: On the Islands of San Andres, Providence, and Santa Catalina. In Bettina Migge, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens (eds.), Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects, pp. 297–322. John Benjamins Publishing.
