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Antillean Creole
kreyòl, kréyòl, kréyol, kwéyòl, patwa
Native to
French Antilles (esp. Guadeloupe, Martinique), Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago[1]
Native speakers
(13 million cited 1998–2001)[2]
Language family
French Creole
Antillean Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Variously: gcf – Guadeloupean Creole / Martinican Creole acf – Saint Lucian / Dominican Creole scf – San Miguel Creole French (Panama)
Glottolog
less1242
Linguasphere
51-AAC-cc (varieties:
51-AAC-cca to -cck)
IETF
cpf-029
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Sign in Martinican Creole: Dlo Koko ("coconut water", from French de l'eau de coco) Soley ("Sun", from soleil) Lanmè ("the sea", from la mer)
Antillean Creole (also known as Lesser Antillean Creole) is a French-based creole that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles. Its grammar and vocabulary include elements of French, Carib, English, and African languages.[3]
^Ethnologue codes Guadeloupean Creole French (spoken in Guadeloupe and Martinique) and Saint Lucian Creole French (spoken in Dominica and Saint Lucia) distinctly, with the respective ISO 639-3 codes: gcf and acf. However, it notes that their rate of comprehension is 90%, which would qualify them as dialects of a single language.
^Guadeloupean Creole / Martinican Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Saint Lucian / Dominican Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) San Miguel Creole French (Panama) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Erland., Gadelii, Karl (1997). Lesser Antillean french creole and universal grammar. Department of linguistics. ISBN 91-628-2793-6. OCLC 470438107.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
AntilleanCreole (also known as Lesser AntilleanCreole) is a French-based creole that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles. Its grammar and vocabulary...
Lesser AntilleanCreole may refer to: Lesser AntilleanCreole English Lesser AntilleanCreole French This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
Vincentian Creole is an English-based creole language spoken in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It contains elements of Spanish, AntilleanCreole, and various...
Grenadian Creole is a variety of AntilleanCreole. In Grenada and among Grenadians, it is referred to as patois. Following several unsuccessful attempts...
Dominican Creole French is a French-based creole, which is a widely spoken language in Dominica. It can be considered a distinct dialect of AntilleanCreole. It...
Guianese Creole, a French-lexified creole language spoken mainly in French Guiana AntilleanCreole French, a creole language with vocabulary based on French...
resembles AntilleanCreole, but there are some lexical and grammatical differences between them. Antilleans can generally understand French Guianese Creole, though...
or French Antilles (French: Antilles françaises, [ɑ̃tij fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; AntilleanCreole: Antiy fwansé) are the parts of France located in the Antilles islands...
but where the French-based AntilleanCreole is widely used, especially Saint Lucian Creole which is related to Haitian Creole and French to a lesser degree...
structure, syntax, vocabulary and orthography. Kwéyòl is a variety of AntilleanCreole, and like other varieties spoken in the Caribbean, it combines the...
French Louisiana, French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe and the French AntilleanCreole Caribbean islands Saint Lucia, and Dominica, in the larger group of...
Trinidadian Creole and closer to other Lesser Antilleancreoles. Trinidadian English Tobagonian English Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
Kreyol may mean: AntilleanCreole French (Kreyol) Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) Liberian Kreyol language (Kreyol) Louisiana Creole French (Kréyol lwizyàn)...
Stevens. Skepi Creole Dutch, formerly spoken in the Essequibo region of Guyana, extinct as of 1998. AntilleanCreole, French-based creole spoken in the...
refer to: Grenadian Creole English, an Eastern Atlantic Creole Grenadian Creole French or Patois, a variety of AntilleanCreole French Grenadian cuisine...
basilectal languages is créole (see also Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole). AntilleanCreole, in addition to French, is spoken in Lesser Antilles and includes...
1493 and gave the island its name. The official language is French; AntilleanCreole is also spoken. The archipelago was called Karukera (or "The Island...
Louisiana). It is related to AntilleanCreole, spoken in the Lesser Antilles, and to other French-based creole languages. The word creole comes from the Portuguese...
GCF may refer to: AntilleanCreole Gauche Communiste de France, a French political party Georgian Co-Investment Fund Global Certification Forum Global...
legal status. People from this former territory continue to be called Antilleans (Antillianen) in the Netherlands. The islands of the Netherlands Antilles...
including Antillean French Creole, Haitian Creole, and Trinidadian Creole. Creole also refers to Bajan Creole, Bahamian Creole, Belizean Creole, Guyanese...
La Woz (AntilleanCreole for "The Rose") is one of the two historic cultural societies (sociétés) of the Antillean country of Saint Lucia. It is also the...
is distinct from Tobagonian Creole – particularly at the basilectal level – and from other Lesser Antillean English creoles. English is the country's official...
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