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The French word ''patois'' is from Old French ''patoier'' meaning "to handle clumsily, to paw". The language sense is probably from the notion of a clumsy manner of speaking. In .'')

Many of the vernacular forms of and Jamaican Creole .'') Patois is also spoken in the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica and in the Lesser Antilles country St Lucia .

Other examples of patois include Trasianka , Sheng , and Tsotsitaal .