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Patois

speaker

Meaning

Noun

A
of
(especially French); usually considered substandard.
Any of various French or Occitan
spoken in France.
Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
In Jamaican English:
Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican
language
based on English and African
but also has
from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
Jargon or cant.
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