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Saint Lucian Creole
kwéyòl, patwa
Native to
Saint Lucia
Native speakers
700,000 (2016)[1]
Language family
Antillean Creole French
Saint Lucian Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Either: acf – Saint Lucian Creole French scf – San Miguel Creole French
Glottolog
sain1246
ELP
San Miguel Creole French
Linguasphere
51-AAC-ccg
Saint Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl[kwejɔl]) is a French-based creole language that is widely spoken in Saint Lucia.[2][3] It is the vernacular language of the country and is spoken alongside the official language of English. It is important that Kwéyòl is recognised as a language on its own merits as it possesses a clear grammatical structure, syntax, vocabulary and orthography.
Kwéyòl is a variety of Antillean Creole, and like other varieties spoken in the Caribbean, it combines the syntax of African language origins and a Latin-based vocabulary as shared by the French. Many of the words found in Kwéyòl are comparative to similar sounding words found in other Romance languages such as 'parlere' in Italian. Like its similar Dominican counterpart, some words are derived from the English, French and African languages. There has also been a recorded syntactical influence of the Carib language.[4]
It remains in widespread use in Saint Lucia across the island. Though it is not an official language, the government and media houses present information in Kwéyòl alongside English.
^Saint Lucian Creole French at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) San Miguel Creole French at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Ethnologue code for Saint Lucian Creole French (spoken in Dominica and Saint Lucia) with the ISO 639-3 code: acf. However, it notes that their rate of comprehension is 90%, which would qualify them as dialects of a single language.
^"Acf | ISO 639-3".
^Mitchell, Edward S. (2010). St. Lucian Kwéyòl on Saint Croix: A Study of Language Choice and Attitudes. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-4438-2147-6.
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