| Afro-Seminole Creole | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | United States, Mexico |
| Native speakers | 200 (date missing) |
| Language family |
English Creole
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | afs |
| Linguasphere | 52-ABB-ac |
Afro-Seminole Creole is an English-based creole spoken by Black Seminoles in scattered communities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Northern Mexico. It was first identified as a language by Ian Hancock, a linguist at the University of Texas.
He found that speakers of Afro-Seminole Creole live in Seminole County, Oklahoma and Brackettville, Texas in the United States and in Nacimiento de los Negros, Coahuila, in Mexico. There are about 200 speakers of the language. Hancock theorizes that Afro-Seminole Creole is related to the Gullah language, a creole spoken in the coastal region and Sea Islands of the U.S. states of South Carolina and Georgia, and that both are part of English-based creoles.