In comparison to many of the English-based dialects of the Caribbean, it suffers from limited research, possibly because it has long been assumed that this language is simply a variety of English.
However, socio-historical and linguistic research shows that this is not the case and it is, in fact, a creole language,[2] related to but distinct from English as spoken in The Bahamas.
Islands that were settled earlier or that have a historically large Black Bahamian population have a greater concentration of individuals exhibiting creolized speech; the dialect is most prevalent in urban areas.
Bahamian dialect shares similar features with other English-based creoles, such as those of Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Saint Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, and the Virgin Islands.
However, the second person plural can take one of three forms: Possessive pronouns in Bahamianese often differ from Standard English with: and For example, das ya book?