Desmond’s Interesting Map

 

This Map shows Caribbean countries and the language that they speak. The formal language of most Caribbean countries use is influenced by the country that the were colonized by the Caribbean was colonized by four main colonies: Spanish, French, English and Dutch. The territories that they colonized adapted their language. The Spanish colonized most of the larger islands but eventually lost control of Jamaica to the British who now speaks English as their official language. The most interesting island on this map is Hispaniola which is made up of Haiti which was colonized by the French and Dominican Republic which was colonized by the Spanish. The British colonized most of the islands in the lesser Antilles. The Dutch had the least influence, they colonized a few islands to the north of Venezuela and a few other small territories. Many of the Caribbean countries also speaks creole which is mixture of their colonizer language and their native language.