How do the languages of the Caribbean islands reflect their colonial history?

The languages spoken in the Caribbean are mostly either European langauges (which shows that those areas were conquered by Europeans) or European-based creoles (which shows that the conquest was more "messy" than in the US: there was less strict connection with the European countries and more mixing among peoples).

Indigenous languages are no longer spoken (or by very few people), which shows the fate of the indigenous people there ...