Belizean Creole English, known as Kriol by its speakers, is an English Creole most closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole, but also Jamaican Patois, Limón Coastal Creole, Colón Creole, and San Andrés and Providencia Creole. Guyanese Creole and most English creoles of the Caribbean show similarity as well. Kriol has about 400,000 speakers, in Belize (where it is the lingua franca and is spoken by 70% of the population) and in the Belizean diaspora, mostly in the United States