Antillean Creole

E6238

Antillean Creole is a French-based creole language spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles, notably in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and surrounding islands.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French-based creole language
creole language
alsoKnownAs Antillean Creole
surface form: Antillean French Creole

Créole antillais
Kwéyòl
basicWordOrder SVO
closelyRelatedTo Haitian Creole
Louisiana Creole
Seychellois Creole
glottocode anti1241
hasFeature French-based vocabulary with phonological simplification
nasal vowels
postposed definite articles
preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers
reduced inflectional morphology
serial verb constructions
hasInfluenceFrom Dutch
English
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

Spanish
hasMajorVariety Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dominican Creole French

Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
surface form: Guadeloupean Creole

Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
surface form: Martinican Creole

Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
hasStandardizationEfforts dictionary compilation
grammar descriptions
orthography development
hasSubstrateLanguage Arawak languages
Carib languages
West African languages
ISO639-3Code acf
languageFamily French Creole
lexifierLanguage French
linguisticTypology analytic language
morphologyType isolating
primaryRegion Lesser Antilles
spokenIn Caribbean diaspora communities
Dominica
French Guiana
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guianas
surface form: Guiana region

Martinique
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
statusInGuadeloupe widely spoken vernacular
statusInMartinique widely spoken vernacular
subfamily Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
surface form: Antillean French Creole
usedFor everyday communication
music and song lyrics
oral literature
radio broadcasting
religious practice
writingSystem Latin script

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

Haitian Creole closelyRelatedTo Antillean Creole
Haitian Creole closelyRelatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Louisiana Creole
Antillean Creole subfamily Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Antillean French Creole
Antillean Creole hasMajorVariety Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Martinican Creole
Antillean Creole hasMajorVariety Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole
Antillean Creole hasMajorVariety Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Dominican Creole French
Antillean Creole hasMajorVariety Antillean Creole self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Antillean Creole alsoKnownAs Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Antillean French Creole
Trinidad and Tobago recognizedLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Trinidadian French Creole
Dominica regionalLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Dominican Creole French
Saint Lucia nationalLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Guadeloupe regionalLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole French
Martinique regionalLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Martinican Creole
Martinique languageSpoken Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Martinican Creole
French Caribbean language Antillean Creole
Kwéyòl subclassOf Antillean Creole
Kwéyòl hasAlternativeName Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole
Kwéyòl hasAlternativeName Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Dominican Kwéyòl
Kwéyòl closelyRelatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole
Kwéyòl closelyRelatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Dominican French Creole
La Désirade regionalLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole
Dominican languageUsed Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Dominican Creole French
Dominican associatedWith Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Kwéyòl (Dominican Creole)
Castries commonLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique spokenLanguage Antillean Creole
subject surface form: Les Trois-Îlets
this entity surface form: Martinican Creole
Afro-Guadeloupeans language Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole French
Roseau primarySpokenLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Dominican Creole French
Gros Islet languageUsed Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Marie-Galante languageUsed Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole
Vieux Fort alsoSpokenLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Soufrière languageUsed Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Les Abymes hasRegionalLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole
Saint Martin (France) regionalLanguage Antillean Creole
Guianan Creole relatedTo Antillean Creole
Guianan Creole relatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Martinican Creole
Guianan Creole relatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole
Guianan Creole relatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Carriacou hasLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Grenadian Creole French
Patois hasDialect Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Patois hasDialect Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Dominican Creole French
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi subclassOf Antillean Creole
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi hasAlternativeName Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi closelyRelatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Dominican Creole French
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi closelyRelatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Martinican Creole
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi closelyRelatedTo Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole
Kwéyòl Sent Lisi partOf Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Antillean Creole dialect continuum
Jounen Kwéyòl (Creole Day) in Saint Lucia celebrates Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
Jounen Kwéyòl (Creole Day) in Saint Lucia languageFeatured Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Saint Lucian Creole French
French Creole includesLanguage Antillean Creole
this entity surface form: Guadeloupean Creole French