English in Barbados

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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`

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Barbadian English or Bajan (/ˈbeɪdʒən/ BAY-jən) 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]

^ Schneider, E.W., and Kortmann, B. " A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax ". Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. In [1],

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