Sint Basilius Creole [STBSL]
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Language type
Creole
Place & SpeakersSint Basilius Creole is spoken by a population of around 32,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sint Basilius Creole
Sint Basilius Creole is the main vernacular language spoken on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Basilius (Saint Basil).
It is an English creole language, related to Jamaican Patois and other Caribbean creoles such as the Virgin Islands Creole language. The phonology and vocabulary are mainly English, however, the grammar (and phonology and vocabulary to an extent) is influenced by various African languages brought by slaves to the Caribbean.
It is an English creole language, related to Jamaican Patois and other Caribbean creoles such as the Virgin Islands Creole language. The phonology and vocabulary are mainly English, however, the grammar (and phonology and vocabulary to an extent) is influenced by various African languages brought by slaves to the Caribbean.
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | |||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Near- back | Back | ||||
| Close | i: ĩ: | u: ũ: | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | [ɔ] | |||||
| Open | a | ɑ: ɑ̃: | [ɒ] | |||||
OtherNotable sound changes from English:
·Th-stopping
·Cluster reduction
·Devoicing of ʒ
·H-dropping
·Non-rhoticity
·Retention of ɑ (English influence)
·Much simplified vowel system
·Th-stopping
·Cluster reduction
·Devoicing of ʒ
·H-dropping
·Non-rhoticity
·Retention of ɑ (English influence)
·Much simplified vowel system
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sint Basilius Creole. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Sint Basilius CreoleOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa/a/ | Ãã/ɑ̃:/ | AA aa/ɑ:/ | Bb/b/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/ɛ/, /e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/ɪ/ | Ĩĩ/ĩ:/ |
| II ii/i:/ | Jj/d͡ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/, [ɒ], [ɔ] | Pp/p/ | Rr/ɹ/ | Ss/s/ |
| SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Ũũ/ũ:/ | Uu/ʊ/ | UH uh/ʌ/ | UU uu/u:/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||||
