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Grenada Video Audio Reviews

English is the national language of Grenada. Grenada Creole French is spoken in some places, but most of the inhabitants speak Grenada Creole English. This variety is similar to the varieties spoken in Trinidad and Barbados.

Among the general features of Caribbean Creoles, there are the following: Caribbean Creoles have a syllable-timed rhythm, i.e. there is no schwa in unstressed syllables. This leads to the prominent “rapping rhythm” of these languages. Often, vowel distinctions are lost, so that cat, cot and caught sound the same. The dental fricative (“th”) becomes an alveolar stop (/t/ or /d/). Furthermore, consonant clusters are simplified, and metathesis can take place (ask becomes aks). Furthermore, consonant clusters are simplified, and metathesis can take place (ask becomes aks).

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Official government site of Grenada

Caribnation TV (TV)

Barnacle Grenada (Newspaper)

City Sound FM (Radio station)

 

 

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