Languages of Saint Lucia
See language map.[See also SIL publications on the languages of Saint Lucia.]
Saint Lucia. 161,000. National or official language: English. Independent member of the British Commonwealth. Literacy rate: 54%. Information mainly from L. Carrington 1984; H. Simmons-McDonald 1994. Blind population: 2,276 (1991 census). Deaf population: 800 to 8,791. Deaf institutions: 1. The number of individual languages listed for Saint Lucia is 2. Of those, both are living languages.
| English | [eng]
1,600 in Saint Lucia (2004).
Dialects: Saint Lucian English.
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
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| Saint Lucian Creole French | [acf]
158,000 in Saint Lucia (2001). Population total all countries: 356,950. Also in Dominica, France, Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago.
Alternate names: Dominican Creole French, Grenadian Creole French, Kwéyòl, Lesser Antillean Creole French, Patois, Patwa.
Dialects: Not intelligible with Standard French. All French creoles of the Caribbean are somewhat mutually inherently intelligible (Goodman 1964). Dominica dialect is virtually the same as Saint Lucia (97%–99% intelligibility).
Classification: Creole, French based
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