Extensive List of Languages of Dominican Republic: Spoken and Extinct Languages
In this Country Profile
:: List of Languages ::
Dominican Sign Language
[doq] Dialects: Lexical similarity: 85%–90% with ASL [ase], and uses most of the features of ASL, such as absent referent and reduplication. Classification: Deaf sign language
English
[eng] 8,000 in Dominican Republic (Holm 1989). Samaná Peninsula, northeastern Dominican Republic. Dialects: Samaná English. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
Haitian
[hat] 159,000 in Dominican Republic (1987). Alternate names: Creole, Haitian Creole. Classification: Creole, French based
Spanish
[spa] 6,890,000 in Dominican Republic (1995). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian
:: Reference ::
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/
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