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-'''Columbé'''{{efn|Known by many other names, including '''Columban Creole''', '''Columban Bemé''', '''Columban Pidgin''', '''Columban Poccasin Pidgin''', '''Columban Poccasin Creole''' and '''Columbanese'''. All these names may also be referred to in the same way but as "'''Saint Columban...'''" etc.}}{{efn|Pronounced [[IPA for Bemé|[kɾijal]]] or [[IPA for Bemé|[kɾijɛl]]].}} is the [[w:Dialect|dialect]] of [[Bemé]] spoken by the Columban people of the island of '''Saint Columban''',{{efn|name=island}}{{efn|name=fullisland}} a British-administrated island in the Malorabin Islands of the Poccasin Archipelago. It is widely spoken as a first language on Columban, and is the official [[w:Vernacular language|vernacular language]] of the island, with around 25,500 native speakers; approximately 98.8% of the population of Columban.
+'''Columbé'''{{efn|Known by many other names, including '''Columban Creole''', '''Columban Bemé''', '''Columban Pidgin''', '''Columban Poccasin Pidgin''', '''Columban Poccasin Creole''' and '''Columbanese'''. All these names may also be referred to in the same way but as "'''Saint Columban...'''" etc.}}{{efn|Pronounced [[IPA for Bemé|[kɾijal]]] or [[IPA for Bemé|[kɾijɛl]]].}} is the [[w:Dialect|dialect]] of [[Bemé]] spoken by the Columban people of the island of '''Saint Columban''',{{efn|name=island}}{{efn|name=fullisland}} a [[w:British Overseas Territories|British overseas territory]] located in the Malorabin Islands of the Poccasin Archipelago. It is widely spoken as a first language on Columban, and is the official [[w:Vernacular language|vernacular language]] of the island, with around 25,500 native speakers; approximately 98.8% of the population of Columban.
+Although the linguistic status of Columbé is debated, linguist consensus dictates that Columbé is a dialect of the more widely spoken [[Bemé]], brought to the island by enslaved Poccasins{{efn|Enslaved Poccasins were not administratively considered "slaves", allowing British colonists in the Poccasins to continue the slave trade despite the [[w:Slavery Abolition Act 1833|1833 Slavery Abolition Act]] and the earlier [[w:Slave Trade Act 1807|1807 Slave Trade Act]] abolishing such practices in the British Empire.}} who were brought to the island by British colonists aiming to drive out the previous Portuguese colonial administration.
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