Talk:Bahamian Creole

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RE. use of the term 'creole'. Bahamian speech is technically a creole due to the hybridiseing of african, english and indigenous words, not a dialect which would be a form of english developed from english only in an isolated community. bahamians have come to be prejudice against the term, when we are by definition a creole society. should we not use it to describe our language?

There is no such thing as Bahamian Creole

This page used to be called Bahamian dialect. There is a reason Bahamian English is known in the Bahamas as Bahamian dialect - it's because it is not a separate language. The people who insist that Bahamian dialect is a creole seem to be on some sort of reverse elitism crusade.

This is what Bahamian English sounds like: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154876631635224&set=vb.771850223&type=2&theater Does it sound like a separate language to you?

ash (talk) 08:52, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You may not like it, but that's how it's classified. The issue is similar with Guyanese Creole, which has a lot of mutual intelligibility with English (particularly in its more acrolectal forms) but is still classified as a separate language. — Æµ§œš¹ _{[lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt]} 15:32, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Classified by whom? Is there a world committee somewhere of which you are the president? ash (talk) 09:41, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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