Saint Lucian Creole French
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- Language: Saint Lucian Creole French
- Alternate names: Grenadian Creole French, Kwéyòl, Lesser Antillean Creole French, Patois, Patwa
- Language code: acf
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Northwestern Shifted Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Langues d'oïl, Central Oil, Macro-French, Circum-Caribbean French, Lesser Antillean French Creole
- Creole language
- Number of speakers: 359,450.
- Script: Latin script.
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Introduction
Saint Lucian Creole French known locally as Patwa is the French-based Creole widely spoken in Saint Lucia. It is the vernacular language of the country and is spoken alongside the official language of English.