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Zenodo
2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17177783 |
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- <p><em>This essay argues that Barbadian Creole bears an additional, understudied Iberian layer, particularly Judaeo-Portuguese, visible in definite-marking strategies (de/da), prepositional stacking, prosody, and proverb structure. While Bajan’s grammar is fundamentally depicted as an English-lexifier creole, Sephardic contact in 17th-century Bridgetown/Speightstown likely reinforced or contributed to specific function-word patterns already emerging in the island’s multilingual contact ecology.</em><br><br><em>This essay thus argues that Barbadian Creole may carry traces of Judeo-Portuguese-influenced phonetic speech, brought by Sephardic Jews fleeing Iberia, which have been overlooked by dominant Anglo-African centric narratives of creole formation within the British Empire. The Judaeo-Portuguese and Afro-Portuguese dimensions of Barbadian life are an additional layer in context to British and African norms, not an erasure of them.</em><br><br><em>For clarity, I’ve placed a glossary of technical terms at the end, so you can refer to it if required.</em></p>