Trinidadian English

Trinidadian English (TE) or Trinidad and Tobago Standard English is a dialect of English used in Trinidad and Tobago. TE co-exists with both non-standard varieties of English as well as other dialects, namely Trinidadian Creole in Trinidad and Tobagonian Creole in Tobago.

Trinidadian English was originally based on a standard of British English. Located in the Americas, TE now uses many Americanisms, including apartment and trunk (of a car). It is understandable by speakers of international standard English, although it uses a number of terms that are unique to it (perhaps coming from Trinidadian Creole), such as "to lime", meaning "to hang out". Speech in Trinidad (and, to some degree, in Tobago) may vary by location and circumstance and is often remarked for its "sing-song" (i.e. a rising and falling inflection) intonation.

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References

Mendes, John (1986). Cote ce Cote la: Trinidad & Tobago Dictionary. Arima, Trinidad.

External links

Miguel Browne's Trini Talk
A Trinidadian accent
Discussion of a paper by Lise Winer
An Ethnolinguistic Study of the Trinidadian Creole community in Flatbush, Brooklyn by Keisha T. Lindsay and Justine Bolusi
50 Frequenty Asked Questions on Caribbean Language by the Society for Caribbean Linguistics
Wiwords A cross-referencing dictionary of West Indian words with a large number of Trinidadian terms
The Sociolinguistic Situation of Trinidad and Tobago. 1997.
Phonological Hypercorrection in the Process of Decreolization--the Case of Trinidadian English.

References

James, Winford, 2001, Trinidad and Tobago Standard English?.
James, Winford, 2003, Doing our own thing with English I.
James, Winford, 2003, Doing our own thing with English II.
James, Winford, 2004, What kind of question is this?.
James, Winford, 2004, What kind of question is this? Pt2.

Dialects and accents of Modern English by continent

Europe

United Kingdom

England	Varieties by common name Barrovian Black Country Brummie Bristolian Cheshire Cockney "Mockney" Cornish Cumbrian East Anglian East Midlands Essex Estuary Geordie Kentish Lancastrian Mackem Mancunian Multicultural London Norfolk Northern Pitmatic Potteries Received Pronunciation Scouse Southern Suffolk Sussex West Country "Mummerset" West Midlands Yorkshire Varieties by geographic location East of England Essex Norfolk Suffolk East Midlands North Cheshire Cumbria [Barrow] Lancashire Manchester Merseyside Sunderland Tyneside Yorkshire South Kent Thames Estuary [Multicultural London] Sussex West Country Bristol Cornwall West Midlands Black Country Birmingham Stoke-on-Trent

Northern Ireland	Mid Ulster Ulster Scots

Scotland	Highlands Lowlands

Wales	Cardiff Gower

Ireland

Channel Islands

Elsewhere

North and
South
America

United States	Varieties by common name African American Vernacular Appalachian Baltimorese Boston Brooklynese Cajun California Chicago / Detroit Chicano Delaware Valley General American Great Lakes High Tider Miami Midland Midwestern New England New Mexican New York New York Latino Old Virginia Ozark Pacific Northwestern Pennsylvania Dutch Philadelphia Pittsburghese Rhode Island Southern Texan Upper Midwestern Western Vermont Yat Yeshivish Yooper Varieties by geographic location Delaware Valley / Mid-Atlantic Philadelphia Baltimore Midland Pittsburgh Midwest Inland North / Great Lakes Upper Midwest Upper Michigan New England Boston / Maine Rhode Island Vermont New York City New York Latino North South Acadiana Appalachia Miami New Orleans Down East Ozarks Texas West California New Mexico Pacific Northwest

Canada	Aboriginal Maritimer Cape Breton Lunenburg Newfoundland Ottawa Valley Twang Pacific Northwest Quebec

Caribbean	Bahamas Barbados Dominican Republic Jamaica Puerto Rico Trinidad

Elsewhere	Bermuda Falkland Islands Guyana

Oceania

Australia	Aboriginal General Strine Southern Torres Strait Western

Elsewhere	Fiji New Zealand Palau Solomon Islands

Other
continents

Africa	Cameroon Kenya Liberia Malawi Namibia Nigeria Sierra Leone South Africa Uganda

Asia	Bangladesh Brunei Burma or Myanmar Hong Kong India Malaysia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka

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