Talk:Languages of the Caribbean

Serious Work

This article is a good start, but it needs some serious work. I tried correcting the subsection on English Languages under the section Language Groups, but while making those edits I realised that much more needs to be done. If you know more about these stuff and have good sources for your information, please help! ~ Hairouna (talk) 16:30, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Remove tag?

The tag at the front of the article says one thing, there isn't anything on the talk page about the tag. Delete the tag?--Lacarids (talk) 02:13, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Very odd tag. It was put in in October 2012, saying that the article is missing info on indigenous languages, but even at the time the tag was inserted there was a subsection on that very thing. I'll delete the tag. Duoduoduo (talk) 15:21, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

A good start indeed, but a serious error : one quarter of the Caribbean population does not speak French. The person who wrote this probably counted Haiti (which has over 10 million inhabitants, plus the Diaspora) as a French speaking country. That would actually amount to 25% of Caribbean people, but not all Haitians speak French, far from it. If we use the figures provided by the OIF (International Observatory of Francophony), we can reach more accurate figures : the second most widely spoken of the Caribbean is Haitian creole (about 1/4 of Caribbean population), followed by English (13%), then only, by French (about 7%). Let us not forget that only 660.000 people out of 10 million speak French in Haiti, with about 620.000 speaking a little of it. That leaves us with confetti islands like Guadeloupe (370.000 French speakers) and Martinique (330.000 speakers), which is not much compared to the 10 milion kréyol speaking Haitians. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.78.75.191 (talk) 16:58, 4 October 2013 (UTC)