U.S. Virgin Islands
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American Sign Language
[ase] Scattered. Users: 110 in U.S. Virgin Islands (Parks and Williams 2011). Approximately 0.1% of total population. Status: 5 (Developing). Alternate Names: ASL. Classification: Sign language, Deaf community sign language.
English
[eng] Users: 93,700 in U.S. Virgin Islands, all users. L1 users: 18,500 in U.S. Virgin Islands (2019). L2 users: 75,200 (2019 World Factbook). Status: 1 (National). De facto national language. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English.
Negerhollands
[dcr] Saint John, Saint Thomas, and Saint Croix islands. Users: No known L1 speakers. The last speaker, Alice Stevens, died in 1987 (Van Rossem and van der Voort 1996). Status: 10 (Extinct). Alternate Names: Creool, Dutch Creole, Negerhollandsch, Negrodutch. Autonym: Kreool. Classification: Creole, Dutch based.
Spanish
[spa] Saint Croix. Users: 16,800 in U.S. Virgin Islands (Instituto Cervantes 2019). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Alternate Names: Español. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian.
Virgin Islands English Creole
[vic] Widespread. Users: 67,200 in U.S. Virgin Islands (2019). Total users in all countries: 89,700. Status: 6a* (Vigorous). De facto language of national identity. Classification: Creole, English based, Atlantic, Eastern, Southern.