Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages

Alternate Names: PATOIS, PATWA, LESSER ANTILLEAN CREOLE FRENCH

Classification:      Creole, French based

Language Use:    In settlements around Dragon's Mouth, children under 10 speak the language; elsewhere speakers are older adults (Hancock 1984).

Population:          3,800 in Trinidad and Tobago (2004)         

Region:               Trinidad, villages of the Northern Range, fishing communities in the islands, and coastal settlements along the peninsula to the west of the capital especially (I. Hancock, ms.).

Read Trinidad French Creole, written by Gertrud Aub-Buscher.