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Antillean Creole is a creole language with a vocabulary based on French. It is spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles. Its
grammar and vocabulary also include elements of Carib and African languages. Antillean Creole is related to Haitian Creole,
but has a number of distinctive features; however, they are both mutually intelligible. The language was formerly more widely
spoken in the Lesser Antilles, but its number of speakers is declining in Trinidad & Tobago and Grenada. While the islands
of Dominica and Saint Lucia are officially English-speaking, there are efforts in both countries to preserve the use of Antillean
Creole, as well as in Trinidad & Tobago and its neighbour Venezuela. In recent decades, it has gone from being seen as a sign
of lower socio-economic status, banned in school playgrounds, to a mark of national pride. Since the 1970s there has also
been a literary revival of Creole in the French-speaking islands of the Lesser Antilles, with writers such as Raphaël Confiant
and Monchoachi employing the language. Edouard Glissant has written theoretically and poetically about its significance and
its history. Dominican, Grenadian, Trinidadian and Venezuelan speakers of Antillean Creole call the language Patois. Antillean
Creole is spoken, to varying degrees, in Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Îles des Saintes, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy (St.
Barts), Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela (mainly in Macuro, Güiria and El Callao). Antillean
Creole has approximately 1 million speakers. It is a means of communication for migrant populations travelling between neighbouring
English- and French-speaking territories. |
Names (more)[en] Creole French, Guadeloupean |
Language type : Living
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