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*'''''Bajan or Barbadian Creole''''' - English-based creole language with African and British influences spoken on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Around 1,000 people use English as their main language and 286,000 use Bajan as their main language. <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Bajan Creole," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajan_Creole, accessed 29 January 2021.</ref> | *'''''Bajan or Barbadian Creole''''' - English-based creole language with African and British influences spoken on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Around 1,000 people use English as their main language and 286,000 use Bajan as their main language. <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Bajan Creole," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajan_Creole, accessed 29 January 2021.</ref> | ||
*There was no indigenous language on Barbados | *There was no indigenous language on Barbados | ||
''Note:'' When West African captives were taken to Barbados and enslaved, they were forced to speak English. But they didn't learn it very well and the result was Bajan. It was the how the slaves communicated with each other without their masters understanding. Bajan continues to evolve as new idioms, jargon, expressions, and terminology are added. It is not a written language, only spoken. There are dialectal variations across the island. [https://www.royalwestmoreland.com/blog/uncategorised/how-to-speak-like-a-bajan-the-ultimate-guide/ How To Speak Like A Bajan - The Ultimate Guide] | |||
==Word List(s)== | ==Word List(s)== | ||