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Trinidadian and Tobagonian English, the Glossary

Index Trinidadian and Tobagonian English

Trinidadian and Tobagonian English (TE) or Trinidadian and Tobagonian Standard English is a dialect of English used in Trinidad and Tobago.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 27 relations: American English, Americas, Anglo-Frisian languages, Arima, British English, Caribbean English, Dialect, Early Modern English, English alphabet, English language, Germanic languages, Inflection, Intonation (linguistics), Latin script, Middle English, North Sea Germanic, Old English, Regional accents of English, Rhoticity in English, Standard English, Tobago, Tobagonian Creole, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidadian Creole, Unified English Braille, West Germanic languages.

  2. Caribbean English
  3. Languages of Trinidad and Tobago

American English

American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Anglo-Frisian languages

The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots, Fingallian†, and Yola†) and Frisian (North Frisian, East Frisian, and West Frisian) varieties of the West Germanic languages.

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Arima

Arima, officially The Royal Chartered Borough of Arima is the easternmost and second largest in area of the three boroughs of Trinidad and Tobago.

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British English

British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.

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Caribbean English

Caribbean English (CE, CarE) is a set of dialects of the English language which are spoken in the Caribbean and most countries on the Caribbean coasts of Central America and South America.

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Dialect

Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.

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Early Modern English

Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModEFor example, or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.

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English alphabet

Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.

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Inflection

In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.

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Intonation (linguistics)

In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Middle English

Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.

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North Sea Germanic

North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic, is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Regional accents of English

Spoken English shows great variation across regions where it is the predominant language.

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Rhoticity in English

The distinction between rhoticity and non-rhoticity is one of the most prominent ways in which varieties of the English language are classified.

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Standard English

In an English-speaking country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of record, etc.

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Tobago

Tobago is an island and ward within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Tobagonian Creole

Tobagonian English Creole is an English-based creole language and the generally spoken language in Tobago. Trinidadian and Tobagonian English and Tobagonian Creole are languages of Trinidad and Tobago and Trinidad and Tobago stubs.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Trinidadian Creole

Trinidadian English Creole is an English-based creole language commonly spoken throughout the island of Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidadian and Tobagonian English and Trinidadian Creole are languages of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Unified English Braille

Unified English Braille Code (UEBC, formerly UBC, now usually simply UEB) is an English language Braille code standard, developed to encompass the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today, in uniform fashion.

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West Germanic languages

The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).

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See also

Caribbean English

Languages of Trinidad and Tobago

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidadian_and_Tobagonian_English

Also known as En-TT, Tobagonian English, Trinidad and Tobago English, Trinidad and Tobagonian English, Trinidadian English.