Where can I get a creole language map of the Caribbean?
A. See SIL’s Caribbean Creole Language Maps, prepared by SIL and SCL members Ken Decker and David Holbrook. More language maps to come. Of interest is the Atlas of the Languages of Suriname, by Eithne B. Carlin and Jacques Arends (Ian Randle Publishers, 2003). • Q20. 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
