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Dominican Creole
kwéyòl, patwa
Native to
Dominica
Native speakers
(43,000 cited 1998)[1]
Language family
French Creole
Circum-Caribbean French[2]
Antillean Creole
Dominican Creole
Official status
Official language in
Dominica
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
None
Linguasphere
51-AAC-ccg
IETF
cpf-DM
Dominican Creole French is a French-based creole, which is a widely spoken language in Dominica.[3] It can be considered a distinct dialect of Antillean Creole.
^Saint Lucian Creole French (Dominica) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Circum-Caribbean French". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
^"The Creole Language of Dominica". Retrieved 31 March 2014.
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