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 Antillean Creole
surface form: Dominican Creole French

Antillean Creole
surface form: Guadeloupean Creole

Antillean Creole
surface form: Martinican Creole
hasAlternativeName Kwéyòl
Bajan
surface form: Patwa (Saint Lucia)

Saint Lucian Creole
Antillean Creole
surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
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 Arawakan languages
surface form: Arawak languages

Carib languages
West African languages
hasSyntacticFeature SVO basic word order
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
influencedBy English (through contact in Saint Lucia)
Metropolitan French
surface form: Standard French
languageOf Saint Lucian people
partOf Antillean Creole
surface form: Antillean Creole dialect continuum
region Caribbean
Lesser Antilles
spokenIn Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
surface form: Saint Lucia (island nation in the Caribbean)
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

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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 Kwéyòl Sent Lisi
this entity surface form: Woi Sent Lisi