Kwéyòl

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Kwéyòl is a French-based Creole language spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles, notably in Saint Lucia and Dominica.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kwéyòl canonical 2
Kwéyòl language 2
Kwéyòl Ayisyen 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Creole language
French-based Creole language
language
celebratedOn Creole Day in Dominica
Jounen Kwéyòl (Creole Day) in Saint Lucia
closelyRelatedTo Antillean Creole
surface form: Dominican French Creole

Antillean Creole
surface form: Guadeloupean Creole

Martinican Creole
culturalAssociation Dominican identity
Saint Lucian identity
hasAlternativeName Antillean Creole
surface form: Dominican Kwéyòl

Kwéyòl
surface form: Kwéyòl Kwéyòl

Kwéyòl Sent Lisi
Patois
Patwa
Antillean Creole
surface form: Saint Lucian Creole

Saint Lucian Creole French
hasGrammaticalFeature TMA particle system
postposed definite articles
reduced inflectional morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature nasal vowels
simplified consonant clusters
hasSubstrateLanguage Arawakan languages
surface form: Arawak languages

Carib languages
West African languages
ISO639-3Code acf
languageFamily French Creole languages
Romance-based Creole languages
languageRegion Caribbean
Diaspora communities in Canada
Diaspora communities in the French Antilles
Diaspora communities in the United Kingdom
Diaspora communities in the United States
Guadeloupe
Lesser Antilles
Martinique
languageStatus widely spoken in Dominica
widely spoken in Saint Lucia
lexifierLanguage French
officialStatus recognized language in Dominica
recognized language in Saint Lucia
primaryLanguageRegion Dominica
Saint Lucia
subclassOf Antillean Creole
French Creole
usedAlongside English
usedFor music
oral communication
radio broadcasting
religious services
storytelling
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

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

Antillean Creole alsoKnownAs Kwéyòl
Kwéyòl hasAlternativeName Kwéyòl
this entity surface form: Kwéyòl Kwéyòl
Patois alternativeName Kwéyòl
Patois alternativeName Kwéyòl
this entity surface form: Kwéyòl Ayisyen
Jounen Kwéyòl (Creole Day) in Saint Lucia celebrates Kwéyòl
this entity surface form: Kwéyòl language
Creole Day in Dominica culturalFocus Kwéyòl
this entity surface form: Kwéyòl language