What are the origins of Caribbean creole languages?
A. See below for a discussion on creoles. (More to come on the history of language contact in the Caribbean.) • Q21. What is the working language of the SCL? A. English by default, because the majority of our members are native anglophones or fluent in English. All of our publications (so far) are in English. However, any one of the official Caribbean languages (Dutch, English, French, Haitian, Papiamentu and Spanish) is an official SCL language. Several papers have been presented in French at SCL conferences. SECTION II LINGUISTICS STUFF Language and Linguistics | Definition of Terms | Creole Languages Other Caribbean Languages PART A LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS • Q22. What is linguistics? A. Language can be studied from a physical or biological perspective, as well as from social perspectives. Linguistics is the study of language in general, as opposed to the study of particular languages. It is the scientific or objective analysis of the nature, structure, function and usage of human l
