Locale En Tt

Reference data for the English (Trinidad and Tobago) locale — endonym English (Trinidad and Tobago), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: en-TT
• ISO 639-1: en
• ISO 639-3: eng
• Script: Latn (Latin)
• Region: TT (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 1,200,000
• L2 (additional): 100,000
• L1+L2 (total): 1,300,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale En 001 (English), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

• one — i = 1 and v = 0 (e.g. 1)
• other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale En 001 and use these Trinidad and Tobago conventions. Written standard English follows British spelling, while Trinidadian and Tobagonian English Creoles are different spoken varieties.

• Spelling: British forms (-ise, -our, -re).
• Dates and numbers: day/month/year, TT$ for the Trinidad and Tobago dollar where clarity is needed, decimal point and comma thousands separator.
• Usage: keep local terms for food, festivals, and places (Carnival, doubles, roti) in their usual spellings; do not respell creole forms in standard copy.

Common pitfalls

• Using US spellings or dates in official local material.
• Using creole spellings for effect in formal text.
• The general pitfalls in Locale En 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Microsoft Writing Style Guide (https://learn.microsoft.com/style-guide/welcome/)
• Unicode CLDR locale data for date, number, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)