Antiguan and Barbudan Creole

Aanteegan an' Baabyuudan

Antiguan and Barbudan Creole is a creole or pidgin, spoken in Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Anguilla and 3 more countries. Wikidata counts about 150,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “English-based creole language in Antigua and Barbuda”.

6a · VigorousLatn +2150,000

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: aig
Glottocode: anti1245
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 6a Vigorous
Wikipedia: 14 language editions

—first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

7countries

1scripts

—levels in the tree

6aEGIDS level

Facts

Name	Antiguan and Barbudan Creole · Aanteegan an' Baabyuudan
Also called	Antigua and Barbuda Creole English, Leeward Caribbean Creole English, Leeward Caribbean Creole, Raw back
All speakers	150,000
Written in	Latin script
Kind	creole or pidgin

Vitality

EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a

Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.

Other languages at this level

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Antiguan and Barbudan Creole is spoken — Map: CROIX · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Antigua and Barbuda3 languages in the index Guyana17 languages in the index Saint Kitts and Nevis2 languages in the index Anguilla2 languages in the index Montserrat2 languages in the index Saint-Martin2 languages in the index Sint Maarten4 languages in the index

Also spoken in Antigua and Barbuda

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · International spaSpanishIndo-European · 555.6 m1 · National