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Considerations

Considerations:

1. Create a shade of blue that represents: "Countries/regions in which the mother tongue of the majority of the population is an English-based creole language but the main language of governance is English"
2. Use the color purple that shows the countries/regions where there is a small English-creole speaking ethnic minority in a country that may or may not use standard English as the language of government.
3. Another shade of blue should refer to the countries in which there is a widely spoken Anglo-creole language in the nation/region although non of official languages are English.
4. Use the color shown below (used to indicate where Russian is spoken) to show countries/regions in which one of the official languages is English but also has the presence of an English-based creole spoken as a lingua franca in informal situations by people who may also be well educated in formal English.
5. Don't forget to use a green square to show cities/settlements/regions where Englsih is a prominent minority language.
6. Use dots to show countries to small to see, e.g. Caribbean, Southeast Asia.

P.S. Don't forget about shading Quebec the right shade.

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Here are their uses:

English-based creole languages:

• Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Belize, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Virgin Island, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Cayman Islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vantu, Torres Strait Islands, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea are all the countries/dependencies/regions where an Anglo-creole language is the native tongue/lingua franca of the majority population while standard English is the language of government.
• Limonese, Miskito Coast Creole, Colón Creole, Rama Cay Creole, Bay Islands Creole, Bocas del Toro Creole, Bende, Samaná English, Afro-Seminole Creole, Gullah, Aluku, Ndyuka, Paramaccan, Kwinti, Saramaccan, and Aku are all English-based creole languages spoken by a small ethnic minority in a region/country that does not speak their language.

They are spoken in: the eastern coast of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama roughly stretching from the Caratasca Lagoon in Honduras to the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in Panama; the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras; the Colombian-controlled Archipelago of San Andrés off the coast of Nicaragua; the Samaná Peninsula in the Dominican Republic; very small, scattered communities in the northeastern Florida wilderness; the South Carolina Lowcountry and the Sea Islands in coastal South Carolina and Georgia; small settlements near the national border in the Maripasoula region of French Guiana; a small community in the interior wilderness of the Marowijne District in Suriname; a small cluster of settlements at the bank of the Coppename River; eastern Suriname wilderness; around the Saramacca River and Suriname River with some populations in French Guiana; an in The Gambia.

• The islands of Saba, Saint Martin, & Sint Eustatius under Dutch & French control, Sranan Tongo in Suriname; and the the Fernandino languages on Bioko Island are all the regions in which the majority of the population speaks an English-based creole language but does not have English as the official language.
• Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroon, Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia are all countries in which English is not the native tongue but a English-based creole has reached the status of lingua franca in informal settings. Standard English is still used as lingua franca in formal settings.

Refer to this list to get ideas about how to show small countries/regions.

Legend

English

Countries/dependencies where English has official language status and/or is the main mother tongue.    Countries/dependencies where the mother tongue is an English-based Creole but the main language of government is formal English.   Countries/dependencies in which there is a widely spoken Anglo-creole language in the nation/region although non of official languages are English.    Countries where English is official but is not a widely-spoken language.   Countries in which English is not the native tongue but a English-based creole has reached the status of lingua franca in informal settings. Standard English is still used as lingua franca in formal settings as it is also the official language.    English-based creole languages unique to a small ethnic minority.   Cities/settlements where English is a major minority language and/or has a notable presence large presence.

ThisguyYEAH (talk) 02:31, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

"Countries" in legend?

But the figure splits up Canada into distinct sub-regions which are/are not incorporated into the anglosphere.

Surely if this figure is going to differentiate between regions within nation states, the legend should be changed to read 'regions' rather than countries? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.176.134 (talk) 12:59, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

This map should not be drawn according to countries since languages are not restricted to countries and countries are not restricted to languages. If this map is only a map of official languages, fine, but that kind of map is not synonymous with the 'anglosphere'. There are large swaths of the US which might be more Spanish than english and there are dozens of metropolises scattered around the world where English is a very significant minority language (such as Montreal). Looking at this map you don't see that diversity.theBOBbobato (talk) 14:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Hong Kong

Article 9 of the Hong Kong Basic Law designates English as one of the officials languages along Chinese in Hong Kong. The dot representing Hong Kong should therefore be light blue.--Jabo-er (talk) 03:47, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Belize

If the dark blue represents "countries where English is the national language or the native language of the majority", shouldn't Belize be dark blue? According to the Belize article "English is the official language of Belize, a former British colony." --Khajidha (talk) 18:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC) PS - the same applies to Guyana and Jamaica as well. --Khajidha (talk) 18:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Guyana and Bermuda

Guyana is marked sky blue but the article recognizes that English is the most commonly spoken language as well as the official language. Also, Bermuda should be dark blue. Ianbrettcooper (talk) 01:31, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Netherlands is different then Kingdom of the Netherlands

English is an official language of the kingdom of the Netherlands, for use in the Caribbean Islands (Saba, Sint-Eustatius)

English is NOT an official language of the Netherlands, as the map shows. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.18.255.58 (talk) 11:52, 7 November 2012 (UTC)