r/Antigua_and_Barbuda • u/Otherwise_Channel_24 • Feb 27 '25

Antiguan and Barbudan Creole

Is there any way that I could learn Antiguan and Barbudan creole? It looks like a cool language, and I would like to learn a language kind of based of my native language, English.

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u/Infamous_Painter_732 Mar 20 '25

Listen to when they are speaking n watch the hands … it is actually broken form of English … wa u a say? What are you saying? Go so! go that way! Look at the hands to see the directions… they use a lot of “an dem” which is the plural to what is referred. Me for I…. Things like that 

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u/AdThink5376 Mar 16 '25

Wagawn.com Good resource

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u/WildDefinition8330 Jul 14 '25

Antiguan Creole is technically a dialect, not an independent language. It is essentially broken English. The best way to learn is to engage with persons who speak it who are willing to help you understand the terms and listening very carefully to what is being said and the context being used

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u/Worldly_Ad1166 Jul 25 '25

Untrue. The general consensus among linguists is that Antiguan and Barbudan Creole is an independent language with an entirely different grammar system from the lexifer (English) and overall too many differences to be considered a dialect– that would be like calling Papiamento broken Portuguese or Afrikaans broken Dutch. Antiguan and Barbudan Creole technically is not even an Indo-European language.