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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
The primary language is '''British English''', although there is a local dialect. '''Spanish''' is spoken by Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Hispanic immigrants. <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "British Virgin Islands," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands#Language, accessed 22 March 2021.</ref> | The primary language is '''British English''', although there is a local dialect. '''Spanish''' is spoken by Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Hispanic immigrants. <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "British Virgin Islands," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands#Language, accessed 22 March 2021.</ref> | ||
'''Virgin Islands Creole''' does not have the status of an official language. The language of government, education and the media is American English in the U.S. Virgin Islands, British English in the British Virgin Islands, both Dutch and English on Saba, Sint Eustatius and the Dutch side of Saint Martin, and French on the French side of Saint Martin. <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Virgin Islands Creole," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands_Creole#Language_use_and_perceptions, accessed 22 March 2021.</ref> | '''Virgin Islands Creole''' does not have the status of an official language. The language of government, education and the media is '''American English''' in the U.S. Virgin Islands, '''British English''' in the British Virgin Islands, both '''Dutch and English''' on Saba, Sint Eustatius and the Dutch side of Saint Martin, and '''French''' on the French side of Saint Martin. <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Virgin Islands Creole," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands_Creole#Language_use_and_perceptions, accessed 22 March 2021.</ref> | ||
==Word List(s)== | ==Word List(s)== | ||