Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Grenada!

languages of Grenada: a small boat tied up at a small port with a city in the background

Most famous for its 1983 invasion by the US, the tiny Caribbean island nation of Grenada isn’t known for its linguistic diversity. Yet for a country of a little more than 110,000, the languages of Grenada are more diverse than you’d think!

A former French colony later captured by the British, the presence of these two colonial empires dramatically changed the languages spoken on the island, sadly exterminating the indigenous languages of the island but replacing them with creoles and European languages, not to mention others…

Official Language of Grenada

English

Regional Languages of Grenada

Grenadian Creole English

Patois

French

Indigenous Languages of Grenada (Extinct)

Carib

Igneri

Other Languages of Grenada

Hindi