Belizean Creole

Belizean Creole is a creole or pidgin, spoken in Belize. Wikidata counts about 110,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “English-based creole language”.

3 · Wider CommunicationLatn110,000

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: bzj
Glottocode: beli1260
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 3 Wider Communication
Wikipedia: 17 language editions

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—second-language speakers

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3EGIDS level

Facts

Name	Belizean Creole
Also called	Belize Kriol English, Belizean Kriol
All speakers	110,000
Written in	Latin script
Kind	creole or pidgin

Vitality

EGIDS 3 Wider Communication3

Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.

Other languages at this level

where it is spoken

Countries

Belize6 languages in the index

Also spoken in Belize

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · International spaSpanishIndo-European · 555.6 m1 · National yuaYucatec MayaCentral American Indian languages · 706,0005 · Developing cabGarifunaTa-Arawakan · 190,0005 · Developing mopMopan MayaCentral American Indian languages5 · Developing