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Meaning
Noun
●
A
regional
dialect
of
a language
(especially French); usually considered substandard.
●
Any of various French or Occitan
dialects
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
creole
language
primarily
based on English and African
languages
but also has
influences
from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
●
Jargon or cant.
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