Limonese Creole

Limonese
Limón Creole English
Mekatelyu
Native toCosta Rica
Native speakers
(55,000 cited 1986)[1]
English creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologlimo1249
IETFjam-CR

Limonese Creole (also called Limonese, Limón Creole English or Mekatelyu) is a dialect of Jamaican Patois (Jamaican Creole), an English-based creole language, spoken in Limón Province on the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica. The number of native speakers is unknown, but 1986 estimates suggests that there are fewer than 60,000 native and second language speakers combined.[2]

  1. ^ Jamaican Creole English (Costa Rica) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Costa Rica".