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Kwéyòl Foodways

Kwéyòl

Ethnolinguistic

⚠ THE LANGUAGE IS WHERE THE FOOD LIVES. SAINT LUCIAN CREOLE FRENCH — Kwéyòl, Patwa — is a French-lexifier creole with African grammar and Kalinago vocabulary, and it names the food: FIG for green banana, BWA for provisions, LANMOWI, ZABOKA for avocado, PIMAN for pepper, BLÈ-ZYE, DASHEEN, and the whole bouyon. JOUNEN KWÉYÒL — International Creole Day, the last Sunday in October — is a national event in which villages cook traditional food publicly, in Kwéyòl, in madras dress, and it is the single most deliberate act of food-heritage maintenance in the country. ⚠ SAINT LUCIA SHARES THIS LANGUAGE FAMILY WITH DOMINICA, MARTINIQUE AND GUADELOUPE and not with its anglophone neighbours, which is why its kitchen reads differently from Barbados or Antigua.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Saint Lucians community documented

Languages: Saint Lucian Creole French

What is recorded

  • Jounen Kwéyòl, International Creole Day, observed on the last Sunday of October, is documented as a national event in which villages publicly cook and present traditional food in Kwéyòl, and is recorded as the most deliberate act of food-heritage maintenance in the country. Saint Lucia shares its creole family with Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe rather than with its anglophone neighbours. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Haitian Foodways documented

    Both are French-lexifier creoles of the Caribbean; ⚠ related languages, separate cuisines.

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