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Bay Islands English is an English variety spoken on the Bay Islands Department (Guanaja, Roatán, Utila), Honduras. Ethnologue reported that there were 22,500 native speakers in 2001.[1] Mainlanders know this language as Caracol, which literally means "conch". Genealogically this variety descends from Cayman Islands English.[2]

Bay Islands English
caracol
Region	Bay Islands Department (Honduras)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo–Frisian English Caribbean English Bay Islands English
Early forms	Old English Middle English Early Modern English Cayman Islands English
Writing system	Latin (English alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	en-u-sd-hnib

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References

Bibliography and Further Reading

• Graham, Ross (1997). Bay Islands English: Linguistic Contact and Convergence in the Western Caribbean. University of Florida.
• Graham, Ross (2010). "Honduras/Bay Islands English". The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. pp. 92–135. ISBN 978-1-139-48741-2.
• Holm, John (1983). "The Bay Islands English of Honduras". Central American English. Heidelberg: J. Groos. pp. 71–94. ISBN 9783872762955.
• Warantz, Elissa (1983). "The Bay Islands English of Honduras". In Holm, John A. (ed.). Central American English. Heidelberg: Julius Groos Verlag. pp. 71–94. ISBN 3-87276-295-8.

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