Rama Cay Creole is a

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spoken by some 800 to 900 people on the island of

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in eastern

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. It is based on

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with additional elements of the Chibchan language

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and purportedly some elements of English spoken with a

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accent. The creolization of the language is supposed to have happened when Moravian missionaries who were native Germans but preached in English encouraged the Rama-speaking population of the island to shift to English.

References

Report on Miskito Coast Creole with a short mention of Rama Cay Creole
*Assadi, Barbara, 1983, Rama Cay Creole English, pp. 115–122 in Holm, John A, Ed. 1983 Central American English. Varieties of English around the World. T2. Heidelberg: Gross. John Benjamins: Amsterdam. English-based pidgins and creoles Languages of Nicaragua Endangered pidgins and creoles South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region Languages of the African diaspora {{pidgincreole-lang-stub