Trinidad and Tobago
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Arabic, North Levantine Spoken
[apc] Users: 2,600 in Trinidad and Tobago. Status: Unestablished. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Chinese
[zho] A macrolanguage. 6,500 in Trinidad and Tobago (2003 J. Leclerc). Non-indigenous.
English
[eng] Users: 1,300,000 in Trinidad and Tobago (2011 J. Ferreira). Status: 1 (National). De facto national language, standard English in writing, education; non-standard English in informal domains, among distinct ethnic groups. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English.
Hindustani, Sarnami
[hns] Scattered. Users: 15,600 in Trinidad and Tobago (2006). Ethnic population: East Indians are 41% of the population. Status: 8a (Moribund). Alternate Names: Caribbean Hindustani, Trinidad Bhojpuri, Trinidadian Bhojpuri, Trinidadian Hindustani. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Eastern, Bihari.
Lesser Antillean French Creole
[acf] Trinidad: Diego Martin municipality, peninsular coastal settlements north of the capital. Users: 4,100 in Trinidad and Tobago (2020 Joshua Project), based on ethnicity. Status: 5 (Developing). Alternate Names: Créole, French Creole, French-lexicon Creole, French-lexified Creole, Kwéyòl, Patois, Patwa. Classification: Creole, French based.
Spanish
[spa] Trinidad: Siparia municipality, southern peninsula, fishing villages. Users: 70,400 in Trinidad and Tobago, all users. L1 users: 4,000 in Trinidad and Tobago (Instituto Cervantes 2019). L2 users: 66,400 (Instituto Cervantes 2019). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian.
Tobagonian English Creole
[tgh] Widespread. Users: 300,000 (2011 J. Ferreira). Status: 6a (Vigorous). De facto language of provincial identity in Tobago. Alternate Names: Tobagonian Dialect. Classification: Creole, English based, Atlantic, Eastern, Southern.
Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language
[lst] Scattered. Users: 1,360 (2019 B. Braithwaite). Estimate based on 0.1% of the general population. Status: 6a (Vigorous). Alternate Names: TSL, TTSL, Trinidad Sign Language, Trinidadian Sign Language. Classification: Sign language, Deaf community sign language.
Trinidadian English Creole
[trf] Trinidad. Users: 1,000,000 (2011 J. Ferreira). Status: 6a* (Vigorous). De facto language of national identity. Classification: Creole, English based, Atlantic, Eastern, Southern.