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  states Nicaragua
  region Rama Cay
  speakers approx 900
  familycolor American
  fam1 Chibchan / Misumalpan / Indo-European Creole language
  fam2 Miskito Coastal Creole / Rama / English
  lc1 bzkld1=Nicaraguan Creole Englishll1=Rama Cay Creole


Rama Cay Creole is a Creole language spoken by some 8-900 people on the island of Rama Cay in eastern Nicaragua . It is based on Miskito Coastal Creole with additional elements of the Chibchan language Rama and purportedly some elements of English spoken with a German accent. The creolization of the language is supposed to have happened when Moravian missionaries who were native Germans but preached in English enouraged the Rama speaking population of the island to shift to English.


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