Saint Lucian Creole Language

[@Davidsbeenhere]

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[@lalaleyla5677]

Davidsbeenhere tu parle pas kreyòl ?

[@Mehki227]

We don't do padua.. The way that he says it..PAH-twa

[@sophiakeilaphilippe3094]

Wait I just found out that the Haitian Creole is so similar to the Lucian Creole omg loll

[@xdqueen9089]

Well yeah, especially the run with the French.

[@ixybrandedarkoya9227]

yh they similar

[@adrean3693]

It is the same

[@khaoticman3055]

mezanmi

[@xSharonDoesMakeupx]

"how about... give me a kiss?" *awkward laugh* ... "i dont think so!" *prolonged awkward laugh* looooooool!

[@lucianaisidore5229]

LOVE my beautiful island of St. Lucia. Such a RICH culture.

[@johannafrancois8891]

i understand that creole I'm haitian

[@benginananafantaisie8370]

johanna francois I’m Haitian too 🇭🇹🇭🇹

[@Josepharismendy23]

Me to i am haitian

[@kozaack1432]

I'm french guyana

[@ninpobudo3876]

@@kozaack1432 I'm Louisana Creole and Dominican 🇩🇲 Creole!

[@kozaack1432]

@@ninpobudo3876 meme biten la

[@issoopdilloo8905]

My island Mauritius we speak creol our creol mix with English and French

[@elmedinauka8361]

I love St. Lucia ♥

[@cayleewilliam1963]

elmedina uka thats where my dads from

[@Mehki227]

@@cayleewilliam1963 Mine, too.

[@gewing26]

Creole in Louisiana, Haiti, the Antilles are even very similiar to the creole we speak in Reunion and Mauritius french is kind of hard to vary from unlike english.

[@lifewithme2097]

Some of the words are similar to the Mauritian Creole which is a mixture of french, english and hindi :)

[@Youngcarter354]

The Saint Lucia Creole is by far the closest one to the Haitian Creole.

[@maronnevilsaint6932]

It’s call Antillien Creole. I think they speak it in Martinique and Guadalupe

[@Josh-xy3td]

@@maronnevilsaint6932 Trinidad as well

[@santo8389]

@@maronnevilsaint6932 It's a bit similar in Martinique between Guadeloupe..But Haitian Kreyol is probably the closest to St. Lucian Kreyol.

[@malgus.]

​@@santo8389 In Martinique we speak the same kreol really it's the same, if you hear a Martinican speaking kreol and st Lucian speaking kreol i don't think that you will see the difference.

[@santo8389]

@@malgus. I been to both countries. Similar like all French based Kreyol islands. But you can clear tell the difference.

[@irandixon78]

Wow I always thought St Lucian, Dominican, Martinique, Guadeloupe,Haiti spoke the same French Patois hmmm this is interesting

[@cayleewilliam1963]

subsystem101 kwéyòl*

[@Guyver-971]

No all creoles are unique, and dont call it patois its a language

[@azieldaly2965]

@@Guyver-971 It was called patois historically in Trinidad,Grenada,etc. A patois language is a language and a patois language can be a creole. So we ain't going to stop calling it patois

[@richieb3602]

they have the same base language french so are all similar but as I. English differences do exist because people live in different areas and are influenced by other things which make subtle differences in the Creole.

[@logicalblackman8228]

@@Guyver-971 most sources call it a patois

[@kevin99981]

St lucian, Haitian, Louisianna, Mauritian and Seychellois créole are very similar 😁😁 Viv la kilti Kréyol

[@lonalxaia]

Also Martinique, Guadeloupe, Grenada and Trinidad.

[@garyrogers1978]

@tyson holder: didn't sound backwards to me. Sounds exactly like how Haitian ppl speak. Too bad it wasn't a 2 St Lucians speaking together. It'd be easier to tell.

[@LaceyShihTzu]

Very interesting language and what a beautiful scene!

[@JAHDCypha]

Our country is filled with beautiful scenes and areas like this.thats y we say "Saint Lucia,Simply beautiful!" As our island motto.many different things to see on this volcanic island💪🏿

[@Triple80600]

i wish i could speak it fluently , i need it to talk to my nan since she barely speaks english...

[@JAHDCypha]

Teach yourself some main words,nouns,verbs,etc.start there. there's a Saint Lucian Creole dictionary somewhere on google,just Google it✊🏿

[@ebonyladyy]

Its just like haitian creole (almost)

[@adrean3693]

It is. He’s just bad at it

[@Guyver-971]

Not its not exactly like haitian creole actually.

[@2012sRandomlyUs]

Lmao at ya'll arguing over this.. Not every single creole is the same... He's speaking from his creole.. There are many different types of creole in this world .. Some mixed with Portuguese . Some mixed with French Spanish and a tiny but of English . It's not uncommon people. Sheesh get ya'll mind right. And it's funny out of all the Creole languages Haitian Creole is the only recognized. Big ups to them.

[@petersugar2185]

Jamaican creole is very much reckonized

[@mant8vaei314]

@@petersugar2185 I didn’t even know it existed until today 😭

[@petersugar2185]

@@mant8vaei314 hahaha

[@richieb3602]

Haitian Creole is the only one recognized. crap. you people come and talk all y'all nonsense without fact.

[@reversalqueen9506]

St Lucia creole is the closest to Haitian creole to me.

[@adrean3693]

It’s literally the same thing. It’s just some of them can’t speak it as clearly as Haitians do

[@Guyver-971]

@@adrean3693 Its not the same thing at all lol. St Lucian is the closest but sure isnt the same thing...

[@JAHDCypha]

@@adrean3693 it isn't .I'm st. lucian, my best friend who's like a brother to me is Haitian and I still learnt a few Haitian creole words and phrases I never heard before in Saint Lucian creole.. few things we say differently in st Lucian creole but our creole sound the most alike

[@azieldaly2965]

@@adrean3693Can't speak it as clearly? What makes you think you all are speaking it clearly? Creole was spoken on most of islands at one point.The Haitian way of speaking is no more correct than the other islands.

[@jaylegacy385]

@@azieldaly2965 Haitian created the language what are you talking about

[@suzieprosper3380]

Sound the same to me and i'm haitian. As far as counting. I was taught en not yonn. Yon is used when asking to have or how many. like "yo genyen YONN sel liv" or " bam mwèn YONN dous kowl"

[@anna-kayeboodho6286]

Well we say yon and that's okay

[@blackinews9892]

You forgot St Lucian use many Taino words

[@mwpierre]

Please share. I’m curious.

[@SunnyGhandle]

Same here

[@lonalxaia]

St Lucians uses carib words not Taino.

[@quietstormtube5703]

Zanmim kreyol ou a pa mal menm yo di me an anglè ki vle di mwen an kreyol depi Haiti 🇭🇹 make some noise Sak pase Haiti 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 .

[@Nuggets230]

Different from mauritian creole but i can understand some words like the counting.

[@palsos123]

Actually Bo Belle is right. St Lucian creole is part of the Antillean creole family and it is a mixture of French, various West African languages with a little bit of Carib and English mixed in as well.

[@jaylace4792]

Cool it’s the same as Haitian Creole

[@sedsa097]

Not really but close

[@jameelasealey3237]

i need to learn this for my Son.

[@gewing26]

Give me a kiss - Ban mwen yon ti bo

[@Aritul]

Yeyell Seeto Thanks!

[@mhizzslimz7289]

Messi

[@chowderismyboyfriend]

There's a song like that, right? Ban mwen yon ti bo, de ti bo, twa ti bo, du du~ Or something like that.

[@queenbee3100]

@@chowderismyboyfriend panamam tonbé

[@oliviaberlouis]

our creole in seychelles is slightly different..

[@MrSilverdash]

Where?

[@xdqueen9089]

@@MrSilverdash the island off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, the speak French Creole too.

[@NegSteLucie]

We don't say bo belle in St. Lucia. St.Lucian creole has its own ideosyncracies.

[@wishingonthemoon1]

That man has such a beautiful laugh!

[@XPXhumble]

I’m Haitian and I understand

[@bobelle1274]

Don't mean to be negative but Spanish & South African ????? Antillean Creole is a mixture of French, African (mainly West African as this is where most of the slaves came from) and Carib words with maybe some English. This man is a bit confusing, 'bonjour' is French not English and 'dubut' is stop no matter whether you are coming or going. I don't speak fluent Creole but I know the basics and the history.

[@oliviaberlouis]

Bo Belle creole is my first language and he made a mistake about saying bonjour is english instead of saying french (the same way i confuse my 2nd and 3rd language), but yes it is also a mixture of south african, spanish/portugese (where slavery of African people first took place, but i'm sure you knew from history)

[@caseypierre-louis6725]

@@oliviaberlouis I'm from st.Lucia an never heard that South African thing, slaves didn't come to the island from that region but from West Africa, mainly Nigeria, Sierra Leone an maybe Kongo.

[@NegSteLucie]

Olivia Seychelles There is no language called South African. Smh

[@NegSteLucie]

Casey P A small percentage came from Central and South Eastern Africa via West Africa

[@JJROBLDN]

spanish, south african?? LOL i ka sanm misye pa konnet istwa'y menm

[@bellefemme87]

I don't think the Spanish influence is too far-fetched tbh. After all, the islands are literally in the centre of Latin America, a predominantly Spanish-speaking region. In his defense of the African influence, he probably meant to say West African and not South African.

[@kozaack1432]

Mi sa

[@ninpobudo3876]

@@bellefemme87 Us Creole are Latino due to our French Latin heritage! Throughout history in the Americas; wherever France went so did Spain! Although I have 0% of Spanish heritage in my DNA!

[@EritajGwadloup]

@@bellefemme87 I'm frol guadeloupe we still speak french here so when we speak creole we know what's from french or not and I can tell you 95% of lesser antilles and French Guyane creole is from french, haitian creole is a bit different but we understand each other but i can tell you haitian creole is also about that much french as lesser antilles creole The other 5% are west african and maybe few amerindians words French is to creole like what Latin is to french, or maybe old french We keep an african way to pronounce them, African tense markers, some vocabulary and African way to put words in sentences Creole can look Spanish for people who don't speak fluent french because it's a Latin language too it could look Italian too lol in latin America would have Italian countries I bet some creole people would say it have Italian in it

[@EritajGwadloup]

@@ninpobudo3876 true and having Spanish DNA doesn't mean people are Spanish most south french people are Spanish in DNA tests

[@rhearaoul842]

I am from st.lucia

[@sarah-ek1rz]

How do i learn st.lucia creole

[@sarah-ek1rz]

You can give me the names or links of the primary school videos

[@alyannaempeno9985]

Very educational! Good job!

[@BDGSecurity]

From st lucia

[@StandUpGill]

Good Morning is "Bon Jour" OR "BON MATEN"

[@ivornworrell]

*Hello, Does SAK A FET (This is how it sounds, but my spelling may be wrong), also mean how are you?*

[@jaybabyee7080]

yes it can but more so to mean what's up/ going on. Cohmou ye ? ( he said it in the video,mind the spelling also) would be better to say how are you.

[@lexdiamondz1991]

JayBabyee it's spelt Kouman ou yé

[@jaybabyee7080]

Thanks, i can speak it but can't spell it lol

[@mhizzslimz7289]

Its saw' ke fe

[@julia4606]

waaaaaaaaa i cant fucking believe he said "south african" this is how little people know of their own heritage

[@julia4606]

which fucking south african. fucksakes. WEST african languages. first of all , south african is not a FUCKING language. second of all, any of the African languages spoken in SA: Zulu, Xhosa, etc, are not even RELATED to any of the languages that creole is based on. They are not even part of the same language family. Creole is a mixture of mainly French and a number of different West African dialects. For example from Dakar, Senegal (West Africa) to Johannesburg, South Africa, it is 10 700 km, that is 8 hours by plane. To give you a little perspective. ppl educate yourselves, pls

[@learnandteach7371]

That what I thought 😂😂

[@rhearaoul842]

I came from that country

[@egithebeautifullanguage3766]

No kisses in Saint Lucia? Probably a hug.

[@legends5218]

Oye Gaza it called Grosi Let and I'm from st.Lucia and give me a kiss is buh mew a bou

[@michaelkennedy8573]

What language did he mean by South African?

[@yellgwad4]

i know patwah but i rlly wish i knew this language

[@SHANGOOYAsCLOSET]

The joy

[@anonymoushpgl3682]

Do people there speak French Creole a lot?And is it easy to understand if you speak French?

[@mhizzslimz7289]

Yes most of st luicians speak it alot

[@haizemahal7815]

It is not that easy to understand Antillean creole if you're French, but you can recognise a lot of words.

[@Guyver-971]

French people cant understand creoles from the caribbean actually.

[@Guyver-971]

Sa ka sanm kréyòl Gwadloup

[@OohlalaHolly]

very lovely man!

[@ashiaku9864]

Saw ka fe?????? SAK PASEEEEEEEE

[@mhizzslimz7289]

Can you write d number one to ten in Lucian creole?

[@lucianbway5502]

Yon De Twa Kat Senk Sis Wit Nef Dis

[@haizemahal7815]

@@lucianbway5502 *sèt

[@lucianbway5502]

@@haizemahal7815 Wi Wi fanm mwen

[@mhizzslimz7289]

I want learn more creole but I'm bajan

[@91Tribual]

thanks! how can you afford traveling all around the world david?

[@kieziamitchel3026]

give me a kiss in creole is bwua MWe a bow

[@MENESONE]

Créole martinique : ba mwen an ti bo

[@victorbeaubriant4758]

Haitian Creolé : Ban mwen bo...

[@Aritul]

Kiezia Mitchel Very interesting thread. Thanks, guys!

[@Peace2daworld]

@@victorbeaubriant4758 nah Ban mwen on ti bo or "fè on ti bo pou mwen"

[@victorbeaubriant4758]

Peace & Love Yeah I should of wrote that and not put it short...

[@tysonholder4774]

Yes thanks for posting this iM fluent in that language

[@sabrinasmith2766]

Sounds interesting more like french

[@Aritul]

Very interesting!

[@NinjaCthulhu]

Too funny, I wonder how similar Creole in Saint Lucia is to Creole spoken in New Orleans

[@JAHDCypha]

Dunno but the new Orleans cuisine/food is very similar to ours in alotta ways.thats why Nina Compton( the daughter of our former prime Minister )who was on Top Chef opened her restaurant there and is thriving 👌🏾

[@palsos123]

I dont know what you are talking about. I'm not telling anyone how to speak their own language. I'm just letting you know the facts. I'm of St Lucian descent myself. The man in this video is clearly a native of St Lucia and fluent in speaking St Lucian creole however he did get a few of his facts a little bit mixed up and some of the things he said were not accurate.

[@ixybrandedarkoya9227]

i will say it basically just like haitian creole

[@learnandteach7371]

What west African words ? Show me 5

[@dramadidi]

how can you tell somebpdy how to speak their own language?? "bo belle"

[@Cxnvict]

Im a Trini and i hv a Saint Lucian Gf 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jakeglasgow7258]

Don't think he was accurate when he said that Saint Lucian Creole is also a mixture of Spanish.

[@TheClercinBros]

+Jake Glasgow i know right

[@marcella3962]

Jake Glasgow it has Spanish mixture he was totally accurate

[@marcella3962]

Pan American I know that but that's not what I'm proving he said creole dosent have Spanish roots and it does you proving something totally different

[@listenup2882]

Spanish roots? Where? Maybe some words derived from Spanish (I'm not aware of any) but certainly not Spanish roots, just African and French roots. There are also a few words from India and some Amerindian and African words.

[@marcella3962]

Piman Mann Jaques if you didn't know it was mixture if Spanish your dumb KREYOL IS A MIXTURE OF TAINO INDIAN, African French and SPANISH LIKE THATS COMMON SENSE lmaoooo

[@tysonholder4774]

Most people here say st.Lucian can understand Haiti people well that's not true we can't understand them very well because they speak french creole we speak french creole but its in a backward sense hope you understand

[@listenup2882]

Speak for yourself bro. Maybe you don't understand that doesn't mean others don't.

[@marginelouis6674]

I understand fine

[@ritapierre6116]

tyson holder I understand them fine, I can converse with Haitians fine so maybe not all lucians can't understand Haitians

[@Guyver-971]

Haitian creole is the easiest creole to understand in the caribbean lol. My mother tongue language is the Guadeloupean creole, its a fluent language speaked before french language. Like Haiti.

[@KalpaHettiarachchi]

Great

[@mhizzslimz7289]

Can u write the language

[@mhizzslimz7289]

Where is d text book n classe r held?

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[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

Haitian Creole is closest to Saint Lucia

[@ArtajoJorge]

Hello: I'd really appreciate if you could translate to Saint Lucian Creole language the 4 lines of this slogan of the sixties : WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT LOVE, JOHN AND YOKO IMAGINE PEACE Thank you very much Jorge Artajo

[@NegSteLucie]

Jorge Artajo Muruzabal Why do you go to even y creole video to ask people to translate this? I'm curious.

[@Guyver-971]

LADJÈ FINI ! SI OU VLÉY LANMOU, JOHN É YOKO IMAJINÉ LA PÈ Here's the translation even 5 years later lol

[@ArtajoJorge]

@@Guyver-971 Better late than never !!!! THANK YOU!!!!

[@ArtajoJorge]

@@NegSteLucie I wanted this message from John Lennon and Yoko Ono translated to the Regional Languages of France, Belgium and Switzerland, and also to the Languages in the Overseas Collectivities, to the languages of the Channel Islands, and in general to all Languages spoken in the Francophonie. I made a video and I put it in KZbin during the time of Yoko Ono's show in the MAC of Lyon.

[@Guyver-971]

@@ArtajoJorge Thats intersting but you know creole isnt really french, it a new language now, because french people cannot understand the creoles. Also all creoles are unique and they are never the same, its also hard for an haitians to understand guadeloupean creole for example. All creoles have their dictionnary also. Its my mother tongue language and i live in Guadeloupe btw.

[@AXsircus]

Beltalowda

[@Pibonsevirces]

Sa kap fèt

[@peterjohn7728]

WE SPEAK PATOIS IN ST.LUCIA

[@gireauxe]

Misrepresentation the language is based off of the French language .... no South African or Spanish ... This used to be colonised by the French for over 100 years before the British ruined it .

[@Lrxxx321]

Yes there is some Spanish I am I. The process of learning it and it's suprised me Catalan is more similar thought than actually Spanish we

[@gireauxe]

@@Lrxxx321 The Catalan language is very similar to french ,that I know and in that aspect there maybe some similarities to French Creole. My point is that French Creole is based off of the French Language and Saint Lucia is former french colony . Another thing is that Saint Lucians need to stop mixing english words in creole Especially the younger generations .. find out what the french word is and use it instead to preserve that as just being of french and nothing else . Listen to radio from Martinique and so on !

[@Lrxxx321]

@@gireauxe yea I hear you but I'll say it's more the millennium generation that started the mixing it just passed down I grew up with my grand parents straight creole but when I met up with my parents and aunts they had alot of English Mix

[@Lrxxx321]

@@gireauxe the foreign influence in heavy too

[@gireauxe]

@@Lrxxx321 Speaking Creole without mixing in english words in is possible ! People are just lazy and that is destroying something that we should cherish !. Every person from Saint Lucia should be able to speak Creole without any reservations , some families have a mindset that if you speak creole you are illiterate and your english will suffer ? we are bilingual . We need to fix creole use french words when you don't know the creole word for what you want to say. Listen to radio from Martinique , Haiti, Guyane FR. and so on with no reservations or objections .

[@dramadidi]

im nt dumb lool am st.lucian...ik but i kno fum means woman -_-

[@LeroyRegiste]

Ba mwe uh ti bou

[@janjakdesalin4236]

" Sa'w ka fe" would be more like what are you doing or real in haiti it would be what do you believe you can do or what like what's on your chest,. Like if you are about to fight someone. I listen to all them Creoles and all of them are secondary languages to them but it is a primary language to us haitians, another word we are the king of this shit. Lol.

[@chabenmatnik1296]

Tou Pare ,king of haitian kreyol maybe lol,all kreyols have their différences. Each kreyol is the best one for his own country. We dont want to speak all the same kreyol. Respect to the ancestors

[@jumppump9149]

Thats what it means in St.Lucia also..this guy was wrong in his explanation

[@quietstormtube5703]

Zanmim men bon kreyol Give me a kiss = fè yon ti bo pou mwen .....= banm yon ti bo kreyol papam Dessalines nan pap pase mal Haiti 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 Make some noise

[@florencengbebou6422]

25 But because of the sin and because of the churches, know that the world will go from suffering to suffering. And it shall come to pass that a man will not be able to shake hands with his brother or his best friend for fear of being contaminated with the disease. People shall walk without touching one another. Schools will be closed and you will hear people say: "I'm afraid of taking the underground or the bus, I am afraid of being contaminated.” You see? The righteous one will say to the wicked one: "Go and show off your nudity on the beach!" and the wicked one will tell him: "I won’t!". You see? [Kc.141v49] #ProphetKacouPhilippe

[@rdoonan8012]

Shut up

[@thegigadykid1]

Bonjour is French not English

[@dubreil07]

st lucians understand haitians clearly but haitians barely understand them. st lucian creole is so fast.

[@dramadidi]

okay

[@dramadidi]

no listen this is st.lucia creole!!!!!!!!

[@chycopssdelavega4635]

Saint Lucia must be French

[@originalchick1345]

he said spanish lmaooo

[@moisepicard3417]

What is this guy talking about?

[@dramadidi]

-_- whts famla?? LOOL

[@lucianbway5502]

😂🤣 supposedly Fanmi? Dek dek people's are thriving u noe gasa

[@moisepicard3417]

It is not a mixture. It is just broken French.

[@Guyver-971]

French is broken latin also... Creoles of the caribbean are a mixture yes.

[@MERCIFUL_KNOWLEDGE]

Creole is the French slang ..

[@dramadidi]

he is wrong creole is broken french!!!!!! nt mixture of spanish its not a mixture

[@Guyver-971]

Creoles language are not a broken french LMAO

[@MODEL_CITIZEN]

If your language can't communicate in the written form, then it's a bad language.

[@azieldaly2965]

it has a written form

[@MODEL_CITIZEN]

@@azieldaly2965 wrong

[@azieldaly2965]

@@MODEL_CITIZEN You are stupid

[@Guyver-971]

All the creoles have a dictionnary nowadays tho

[@Guyver-971]

And there is a written from lmao

[@millionairemoney9922]

it sounds like a slow lazy creole

[@garyrogers1978]

@tyson holder: didn't sound backwards to me. Sounds exactly like how Haitian ppl speak. Too bad it wasn't a 2 St Lucians speaking together. It'd be easier to tell.

[@blackinews9892]

exactly

[@tresawill6247]

Great