Saban English

Saban English is the local dialect of English spoken on Saba, an island in the Dutch Caribbean. It belongs to the group of Caribbean English varieties. It has been classified by some linguists as a decreolized form of Virgin Islands Creole English. Other linguists posit that Saban English may have never undergone creolization, and that it is contact variety of English with substrate effects from West African languages and Dutch. There is one published dictionary of Saban English, A Lee Chip, authored by Theodore R. Johnson.