Kwéyòl Sent Lisi

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Kwéyòl Sent Lisi is the Saint Lucian variety of Antillean Creole, a French-based creole language widely spoken in Saint Lucia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi canonical 1
Woi Sent Lisi 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Antillean Creole variety
French-based creole
creole language
language variety
celebratedOn Jounen Kwéyòl (Creole Day) in Saint Lucia
closelyRelatedTo Dominican Creole French
linked to: Antillean Creole

Guadeloupean Creole
linked to: Antillean Creole

Martinican Creole
linked to: Antillean Creole
hasAlternativeName Kwéyòl
Patwa (Saint Lucia)
linked to: Bajan

Saint Lucian Creole
Saint Lucian Creole French
linked to: Antillean Creole
hasCulturalRole key marker of Saint Lucian identity
vehicle of Saint Lucian oral literature
hasISOCode acf
hasLanguageCodeType ISO 639-3
hasLanguageFamily Creole
French Creole
hasLexifierLanguage French
hasMorphologicalFeature analytic tense-mood-aspect markers
hasPhonologicalFeature nasal vowels
simplified consonant clusters compared to French
hasSociolinguisticFeature used alongside English in a diglossic situation in Saint Lucia
hasStandardizationEffort orthography development in Saint Lucia
hasStatus major vernacular language of Saint Lucia
widely spoken language in Saint Lucia
hasSubstrateLanguage Arawak languages
linked to: Arawakan languages

Carib languages
West African languages
hasSyntacticFeature SVO basic word order
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
influencedBy English (through contact in Saint Lucia)
Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French
languageOf Saint Lucian people
partOf Antillean Creole dialect continuum
linked to: Antillean Creole
region Caribbean
Lesser Antilles
spokenIn Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia (island nation in the Caribbean)
linked to: Saint Lucia
subclassOf Antillean Creole
French-based creole language
usedFor everyday communication in Saint Lucia
local media in Saint Lucia
music and popular culture in Saint Lucia
oral tradition in Saint Lucia
religious practice in Saint Lucia
usedInEducation some literacy and bilingual education initiatives in Saint Lucia

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kwéyòl hasAlternativeName Kwéyòl Sent Lisi
King of Saint Lucia titleInSaintLucianCreoleFrench Woi Sent Lisi
linked to: Kwéyòl Sent Lisi