Indo-European · ISO 639-3 trf
Trinidadian Creole English Language Trinidadian Creole
Trinidadian Creole English is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Trinidadian Creole English is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Trinidadian Creole English
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- North Sea Germanic
- Anglo-Frisian
- Anglic
- Later Anglic
- Middle-Modern English
- Macro-English
- Guinea Coast Creole English
- Caribbean English Creole
- Eastern Caribbean Creole
- Barbados-Eustatius
- Barbados-Trinidad
- Trinidadian Creole English
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Trinidadian Creole English language
Trinidadian Creole English (Trinidadian Creole) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 483rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Campidanese Sardinian (1.0 million) and ahead of Guibian Zhuang (1.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Barbados-Trinidad group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Trinidadian Creole English spoken?
Trinidadian Creole English is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Trinidad and Tobago (1.0 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Trinidad and Tobago — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Trinidadian Creole English is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Trinidadian Creole English is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Jamaican Creole English, Nigerian Pidgin, Krio, Ghanaian Pidgin English, Cameroon Pidgin, English and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 trf.
Frequently asked questions about Trinidadian Creole English
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.