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Trash Island Creole is a language spoken on Trash Island as a native language of around 25% of the population, and as a lingua franca throughout the island. Its vocabulary mostly comes from Jamaican Patois and Haitian Creole, and English.

Phonology
Trash Island Creole has 22 phonemes expressed by 20 characters. There is a five-vowel system similar to that found in Spanish. The letters are pronounced as how they are in IPA unless otherwise written. Two phonemes are expressed with digraphs: /ŋ/ is written as  and /ʃ/ is written as . All words are written how they are said without exceptions.

a, b, d, e, g, h, i, j [d͡ʒ], k, l, m, n, ng [ŋ], o, p, s, sh [ʃ], t, u, w, y [j], z

Grammar
Due to the creole decending from a pidgin language for speakers of such a diverse group of people, the grammar of Trash Island Creole is relatively simple without much irregularity.

Nouns
Nouns are marked for definiteness with functional morphology, but don't change forms in any other way. A noun is made definite by adding yo after the head noun, descended from Haitian Creole grammar. There is a plural counterpart to this particle, yon, for plural definite nouns. For indefinite, singular and plural nouns are not differentiated.

Besides the definite markers and possessive pronouns, anything that modifies the noun precedes it. Adjectives always come before the noun and only have one form. To add an embedded clause modifying the noun, the particle da is used between the clause and main noun.

Final particles
There are some optional particles that can be used at the end of a sentence to express the speaker's feeling. This phenomenon descends from Chinese languages.

Lexicon
Most of Trash Island Creole's phonemes come from Jamaican English or Haitian Creole, but there some come from Spanish, Sinitic Languages, Portuguese, other Carribean creole languages, Hmong and Zhuang.