English in Barbados

Barbadian English
Barbadian English
Bajan English
Region	Commonwealth Caribbean
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Caribbean English Barbadian English; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Old English Middle English Early Modern English ; ; ; ;
Writing system	English alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	en-BB

Barbadian English or Bajan (/ˈbeɪdʒən/) English is a dialect of the English language as used by Barbadians (Bajans) and by Barbadian diasporas. It should not be confused with Bajan Creole, which is an English-based creole language.[1]

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