Turks and Caicos Creole is an
English-based creole spoken in the
Turks and Caicos Islands
The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and ...
, a
West Indian British overseas territory
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs), also known as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), are fourteen territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom. They are the last remnants of the former Br ...
in the
Lucayan Archipelago.
The Turks and Caicos Island Creole variety has not been thoroughly studied but may be directly related to
Bahamian Creole as one of its dialects as the two are reportedly highly
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as a ...
. As of 1995, the number of speakers of Turks and Caicos Islands Creole is around 10,700,
Ethnologue
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report fo
Turks and Caicos Creole English
/ref> although decreasing and endangered. It seems to be shifting to a variety form of Caribbean English. Turks and Caicos Islands Creole does not have an official status.
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Turks and Caicos Islands culture
Languages of the Turks and Caicos Islands
English-based pidgins and creoles
Languages of the Caribbean
Languages of the United Kingdom
Endangered pidgins and creoles
Languages of the African diaspora
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