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Belize Kriol English (also Kriol or Belizean Creole) is an English-based creole language closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole Jamaican Patois San Andrés-Providencia Creole Bocas del Toro Creole Colón Creole Rio Abajo Creole and Limón Coastal Creole. Population estimates are difficult; virtually all of the more than 70000 Creoles in Belize speak Kriol. In a 2000 Belize Census 24.9% claimed Creole ethnicity and 33% claimed Kriol as their first language.