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Saint Lucian Creole, the Glossary

Saint Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl) is a French-based creole language that is widely spoken in Saint Lucia.^[1]

43 relations: Affricate, Alveolar consonant, Antillean Creole, Approximant, Back vowel, Carib language, Caribbean, Central vowel, Close vowel, Close-mid vowel, Digraph (orthography), Dominica, Dominican Creole French, English language, French-based creole languages, Fricative, Front vowel, Glottal consonant, Grenada, Grenadian Creole French, Guadeloupe, Haitian Creole, Kalina people, Lesser Antilles, Martinique, Nasal consonant, Nasalization, Open vowel, Open-mid vowel, Palatal consonant, Plosive, Politics of Saint Lucia, Postalveolar consonant, Saint Lucia, Treaty of Paris (1814), Trinidad and Tobago, Velar consonant, Vernacular, Voice (phonetics), Voiced bilabial nasal, Voiced velar nasal, Voiceless glottal fricative, Voicelessness.
Creoles of the Caribbean
French language in the Americas
French-based pidgins and creoles
Languages of Saint Lucia

Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Antillean Creole (also known as Lesser Antillean Creole) is a French-based creole that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles. Saint Lucian Creole and Antillean Creole are creoles of the Caribbean, French language in the Americas, French-based pidgins and creoles and languages of Saint Lucia.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Carib language

Carib or Kari'nja is a Cariban language spoken by the Kalina people (Caribs) of South America.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Close-mid vowel

A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Digraph (orthography)

A digraph or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.

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Dominica

Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.

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Dominican Creole French

Dominican Creole French is a French-based creole, which is a widely spoken language in Dominica. Saint Lucian Creole and Dominican Creole French are creoles of the Caribbean, French language in the Americas and French-based pidgins and creoles.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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French-based creole languages

A French creole, or French-based creole language, is a creole for which French is the lexifier. Saint Lucian Creole and French-based creole languages are French-based pidgins and creoles.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Grenada

Grenada (Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Grenadian Creole French

Grenadian Creole is a variety of Antillean Creole. Saint Lucian Creole and Grenadian Creole French are creoles of the Caribbean, French language in the Americas and French-based pidgins and creoles.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean.

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Haitian Creole

Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen,; créole haïtien), or simply Creole (kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population. Saint Lucian Creole and Haitian Creole are creoles of the Caribbean, French language in the Americas and French-based pidgins and creoles.

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Kalina people

The Kalina, also known as the Caribs or mainland Caribs and by several other names, are an Indigenous people native to the northern coastal areas of South America.

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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Martinique

Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nasalization

In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Open-mid vowel

An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Politics of Saint Lucia

Politics of Saint Lucia takes place in the framework of an independent parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy, with King Charles III as its head of state, represented by a Governor General, who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

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Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean.

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Treaty of Paris (1814)

The Treaty of Paris, signed on 30 May 1814, ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars, following an armistice signed on 23 April between Charles, Count of Artois, and the allies.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

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Vernacular

Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Voiced bilabial nasal

The voiced bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound which has been observed to occur in about 96% of spoken languages.

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Voiced velar nasal

The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek ἆγμα 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

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Voiceless glottal fricative

The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant.

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Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucian_Creole

Also known as ISO 639:acf, ISO 639:scf, Saint Lucian Creole French, Saint Lucian Creole French language, Saint Lucian Creole language, Saint Lucian French Creole, San Miguel Creole French, San Miguel Creole French language.

Saint Lucian Creole, the Glossary

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See also

Creoles of the Caribbean

French language in the Americas

French-based pidgins and creoles

Languages of Saint Lucia

References