Is it a kind of dialect of a language like English, or a different form of the language, or a separate language altogether? And what qualifies a language as a Patois?
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As the modern linguistics tend to use the paradigm of descriptivism, the concept of “patois” isn’t really a linguistic term. Linguists are expected to study and describe every form of language with the same approach, without creating arbitrary categories, which language is considered “proper” and which is ”broken/slang/patois”.
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