text: Bajan is a primarily spoken language with no standardised written form. Due to the lack of standardisation, spelling may vary widely from person to person. There is much dialectal variation throughout the island. Barbadians practising Rastafari on the island also tend to speak more with a Jamaican accent than full Bajan. Bajan words and sentences presented below are largely spelled as they are pronounced. New terminology, expressions, jargon, and idioms are regularly added to the dialect by social commentary sung during the annual Crop Over festival.
  Features
  As in most English-based Caribbean creoles, the interdentals  and  (as in "thing", and "the" respectively) have merged with other consonants (in this case,  and , respectively, resulting in "ting" and "de"). Unlike most other Caribbean creoles, Bajan is fully rhotic, and if anything more rhotic than North American Standard English. Bajan also has a strong tendency to realize syllable-final  as a glottal stop . Thus the Bajan pronunciation of start, , contrasts sharply with the pronunciation of other Caribbean speakers,  or  or .
  Pronouns
  Pronouns in Bajan Dialect do not diverge too far from Standard English, but there are differences. As with other similar creoles, Bajan does not differentiate subject and object pronouns, nor possessive pronouns, except in the case of the first person singular. Another difference is the word for the plural you, which is wunna, similar to the Jamaican word unnu / unna or Bahamian yinna or Gullah Geechee hunnuh. Here is a list of pronouns in Bajan Dialect:
  The word "yuh" is interchangeably pronounced  or .