Bay Islands English

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Bay Islands English is an English variety spoken on the Bay Islands Department (Guanaja, Roatán, Utila), Honduras. Ethnologue reported that there were 22,500 native speakers in 2001.[1] Mainlanders know this language as Caracol, which literally means "conch". Genealogically this variety descends from Cayman Islands English.[2]

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Bay Islands English
caracol
RegionBay Islands Department (Honduras)
Early forms
Latin (English alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
IETFen-u-sd-hnib
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