Black English

Black English is a term used for both dialects of English and English-based pidgins and creoles, and whose meaning depends considerably upon the context, and particularly the part of the world.

Africa

• Aku (dialect) (Gambia)
• Cameroon English
• Cameroonian Pidgin English
• Chilapalapa (Zambia, Zimbabwe)
• Engsh (Kenya)
• Krio language (Sierra Leone)
• Liberian English
• Liberian Kreyol language
• Malawian English
• Nigerian Pidgin
• South African English
• Ugandan English
• West African Pidgin English

The Americas

North America

• African American Vernacular English (primarily US)
• Bermudian English
• Gullah language

Caribbean

• Caribbean English
• Anguillan Creole
• Antiguan Creole
• Bahamian English
• Bajan Creole also called Barbadian
• Cayman Creole
• Grenadian Creole
• Jamaican English
• Jamaican Patois
• Montserrat Creole
• Saint Martin Creole
• Saint Kitts Creole
• Tobagonian Creole
• Trinidadian English
• Trinidadian Creole
• Turks and Caicos Islands Creole
• Vincentian Creole
• Virgin Islands Creole

Central America

• Belizean Kriol language
• Colón Creole (Panama)
• Limónese Creole (Costa Rica)
• Miskito Coastal Creole (Nicaragua)
• Rama Cay Creole (Nicaragua)
• Rio Abajo Creole (Panama)

South America

• Guyanese Creole
• Ndyuka (language) (Suriname)
• San Andrés-Providencia Creole (Colombia)
• Sranan Tongo (Suriname)

Australasia

Australia

• Australian Aboriginal English
• Australian Kriol language
• Light Warlpiri
• Queensland Kanaka English
• Torres Strait Creole

Elsewhere

• Bislama (Vanuatu)
• Nauruan Pidgin English
• Pijin language (Solomon Islands)
• Tok Pisin (New Guinea)

Europe

• Black British English

See also

• List of dialects of the English language
• List of English-based pidgins
• English-based creole languages