The CIA World Factbook does not distinguish between Haitian Creole, and Bahamian Creole known simply as " dialect " to its 400, 000 users.

* Bahamian English, a dialect of English spoken by Bahamians and Bahamian diasporas ( mostly by Bahamian Americans and Bahamian Britons ).

Bahamian dialect is also spoken by many Bahamian Americans, especially in Florida.

* Bahamian English

* Bahamian English

English Canadian hip hop tends to be influenced by Jamaican, Trinidadian and Bahamian styles, while francophone hip hop from Quebec is commonly influenced by Haitian music.

In the 1980's Lexik House published ТРОйКА -- The TROIKA Introduction to Russian Letters and sounds ( c. 1980 ) by Reason A. Goodwin, the Dictionary of Bahamian English ( c. 1982 ) by John A. Holm with Alison Watt Shilling, and in 1987 The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming by Thomas L. Clark.

He also maintains that some of the Africans taken as slaves to the New World already spoke Guinea Coast Creole English in Africa, and that their creole speech influenced the development of creole languages spoken today on the American side of the Atlantic such as Gullah, Afro-Seminole Creole, Bahamian Dialect, Jamaican Creole, Belizean Kriol, Guyanese Creole, Sranan Tongo in Suriname, etc.

Turks and Caicos Island Creole is similar to other Caribbean English creoles and is almost identical to Bahamian Creole.

These include the Krio language of Sierra Leone, Bahamian Dialect, Jamaican Creole, Bajan Creole and Belizean Kriol.

Properly referred to as " Sea Island Creole ," the Gullah language is related to Jamaican Creole, Barbadian Dialect, Bahamian Dialect, and the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa.

Similar to the above, a Bahamian moor is used to sharply limit the swing range of a vessel, but allows it to swing to a current.

The Bahamian economy is almost entirely dependent on tourism and financial services to generate foreign exchange earnings.

A major contribution to the recent growth in the overall Bahamian economy is Kerzner International's Atlantis Resort and Casino, which took over the former Paradise Island Resort and has provided a much needed boost to the economy.

Bahamian tastes in consumer products roughly parallel those in the U. S. With approximately 85 % of the population of primarily African descent, there is a large and growing market in the Bahamas for " ethnic " personal care products.

A Bahamian wrecker, when asked if he and his crewmates made beacons on shore or showed their lights to warn ships away from the land at night, is reported to have said, " No, no ; we always put them out for a better chance by night ".

Eighty-five percent of the Bahamian population is of African heritage.

She is represented ceremonially by a Bahamian governor-general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

It is mandated to perform intelligence operations inside the Bahamas to ensure the safety of Bahamian citizens and foreigners.

It is based on a Bahamian lullaby that tells the story of a mother on her death bed, comforting her children, " Hush little baby, don't you cry ./ You know your mama's bound to die ," because, as she explains, " All my trials, Lord ,/ Soon be over.

Rake and Scrape is traditionally used to accompany the Bahamian Quadrille and the heel-toe polka all relics of the initial mixture of Africa and Europe.

The Bahamian dollar is pegged to the U. S. dollar on a one-to-one basis.

The Central Bank of The Bahamas states that it uses reserve requirements, changes in the Bank discount rate and selective credit controls, supplemented by moral suasion as main instruments of monetary policy, the objective of which is to keep stable conditions, including credit, in order to maintain the parity between the U. S. dollar and the Bahamian dollar while allowing economic development to proceed.

Although the U. S. dollar ( as any other foreign currency ) is subject to exchange control laws in The Bahamas, the parity between Bahamian dollars and U. S. dollars means that any business will accept either U. S. or Bahamian currency and many of the businesses that serve tourists have extra U. S. dollars on hand for the convenience of American tourists.

For this reason, the Bahamian $ 100 bill is often referred to by locals as " a blue marlin ".

Luther Campbell is of Jamaican and Bahamian ancestry and has three older brothers .< ref >

Perry Gladstone Christie, PC, MP ( born 21 August 1943 ), is a Bahamian politician who has served as Prime Minister of the Bahamas since May 2012 ; previously he was Prime Minister from 2002 to 2007.

Nicolette Bethel is a Bahamian teacher, writer and anthropologist.

While she has published several poems and short stories, and co-written and co-produced several plays for theatres of the Bahamas, she is arguably best known as an expert for Junkanoo, a Bahamian festival at Christmas.

The Bimini Boa ( Epicrates striatus fosteri ) protected by Bahamian law is the largest of the terrestrial reptiles on Bimini.

The Governor General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas is the viceregal representative of the Bahamian Monarch ( currently Queen Elizabeth II ).

Andros Island is an archipelago within the Bahamas, the largest of the 26 inhabited Bahamian Islands.

This single Bahamian island is as large as the US State of Delaware.

There is a fledgling conservation industry on Andros, dedicated to preserving the island's unique ecosystems, working in partnership with both the Bahamian government ( Bahamas National Trust ) and such varied non-governmental organizations as The Nature Conservancy and Project AWARE of the Professional Association of Dive Instructors ( PADI ).

His early Bahamian recordings were mostly in Caribbean musical styles rather than jazz, in which he sang and played both alto and tenor saxophone.

His MA thesis in ethnomusicology, Music in The Bahamas: its Roots, Rhyme and Personality, studied the development of Bahamian music from the slave era to the 20th century, and one chapter of that thesis was expanded into the book Junkanoo: Festival of The Bahamas ( Macmillan Caribbean 1992, ISBN 0-333-55469-8 ).

Examples of dollars that are directly related to the original Spanish dollar unit are the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, the Newfoundland dollar, the East Caribbean dollar, the Belize dollar, the Guyanese dollar, the Bermuda dollar, the Bahamian dollar, the Trinidad and Tobago dollar, the Barbados dollar, the Hong Kong dollar, the Straits dollar, the Malayan dollar, the Singapore dollar, and the Brunei dollar.

The party was formed due to a strongly held belief among the founding group that Caribbean governments generally, and successive Bahamian governments specifically, failed to incorporate young persons ( under the age of 30 ) in the decision-making processes of government at any level.

The word " Gombey " is related to the Bahamian " Goombay ", a similar dance tradition.

In addition to the Bahamian Goombay tradition, Gombey is similar to some other Afro-Caribbean styles and celebrations ( such as the Mummers ).

The word for you ( plural ) is wuna, similar to Jamaican unnu / unna or Bahamian yinna.

In the following decades, Oliver and his Phoenix Foundation were also involved in similar projects on the Bahamian island of Abaco and in Vanuatu with the New Hebrides Autonomy Movement ( MANH ) which was done by financing an insurrection.

Ironically, the BDM's Mace Incident was strikingly similar to an event of important political significance in Bahamian history known as Black Tuesday.