page_title: Antillean Creole
section_title: Example vocabulary
hierarchical_section_title: Antillean Creole / Example vocabulary
caption_attribution_description: English: Sign in Guadeloupe creole on tree in a residental area (Lamarre, unincorporated) near Sainte Anne, Guadeloupe, France. Translation: "Lift [your] foot (i.e., slow down), children are playing here!". Français&#160;: Panonceau en créole dans une zone résidentielle (lieu dit Lamarre), dans les grands fonds de Sainte Anne, en Guadeloupe (France). Traduction: Levez le [votre] pied, il y a des enfants qui jouent ici. Guadeloupéen/Guadeloupean Creole French: "Lévé pié aw - Ni ti moun ka joué la!"
context_page_description: Antillean Creole is a French-based creole, which is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles. Its grammar and vocabulary include elements of Carib, English, and African languages.
  Antillean Creole is related to Haitian Creole but has a number of distinctive features; however, they are highly mutually intelligible. The language was formerly more widely spoken in the Lesser Antilles, but its number of speakers is declining in Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. While the islands of Dominica and Saint Lucia are officially English-speaking, there are efforts to preserve the use of Antillean Creole, as well as in Trinidad and Tobago and its neighbour, Venezuela. In recent decades, Creole has gone from being seen as a sign of lower socio-economic status, banned in school playgrounds, to a mark of national pride.
  Since the 1970s, there has been a literary revival of Creole in the French-speaking islands of the Lesser Antilles, with writers such as Raphaël Confiant and Monchoachi employing the language. Édouard Glissant has written theoretically and poetically about its significance and its history.
context_section_description: Hello – bonjou /bonzu/ (from "bonjour").
  Please – souplé /su ple/ (from "s'il vous plaît").
  Thank you – mèsi /mɛsi/ (from "merci").
  Excuse me – eskizé mwen (from "excusez-moi").
  Rain is falling – lapli ka tonbé / lapli ap tonbe (Haitian) / (from "la pluie tombe").
  Today is a nice/beautiful day – jodi-a sé an bel jounin / yon bel jou jodi-a bel (from "aujourd'hui c'est une belle journée").
  How are you/how are you keeping – ka ou fè? (Guadeloupe) / sa ou fè? (Martinique) sa k ap fèt? (Haitian).
  Anne is my sister/mother/wife – Ann sé sè/manman/madanm (an) mwen
  Andy is my brother/father/husband – Andy sé fwè/papa/mari (an) mwen
  He is going to the beach – i ka alé bodlanmè-a/laplaj (from "il va aller au bord de la mer/à la plage")
caption: Road sign in residential area in Guadeloupe. Slow down. Children are playing here.
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