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'Rama Cay Creole' is a creole language spoken by some 8-900 people on the island of Rama Cay in eastern Nicaragua. It is based on Miskito Coastal Creole with additional elements of the Chibchan language Rama and purportedly some elements of English spoken with a German accent. The creolization of the language is supposed to have happened when Moravian missionaries who were native Germans but preached in English enouraged the Rama speaking population of the island to shift to English.

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★ Report on Miskito Coast Creole with a shor mention of Rama Cay Creole

★ Assadi, Barbara, 1983, Rama Cay Creole English, pp. 115-122 in Holm, John A, Ed. 1983 'Central American English'. Varieties of English around the World. T2. Heidelberg: Gross. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.