Asian Caribbeans

Asian Caribbeans
Total population
	2,500,000+
Languages
	Colonial Languages: English; Spanish; French; Dutch; Portuguese; ; Asian Languages: Caribbean Hindustani; Standard Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); Tamil; Sindhi; Gujarati; Kutchi; Punjabi; Bengali; Telugu; Modern Standard Hindi; other South Asian languages; Chinese; Hakka; Javanese; Japanese; Tagalog; Thai; Hmong; Korean; Arabic; ;
Religion
	Predominantly: Hinduism; Islam; Buddhism; Chinese folk religions (including Confucianism and Taoism); Christianity; Other Minority: Shinto; Sikhism; Jainism; Zoroastrianism; Judaism; Baháʼí; ;
Related ethnic groups
	Asian people; Asian Americans; Asian Canadians; British Asians; Asian Africans; Asian Brazilians; Asian Caymanians;

Asian Caribbeans are people who live in the Caribbean, but were born in Asia or are descended from people who were born in Asia.

The Asian Caribbean populations were the result of indentured labourers that were brought here to work in mines, sugar plantations, etc. after the abolition of slavery.

Sub-Groups

External links

South Asians in the Caribbean: a bibliography

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