How to pronounce“patois”in English
That's how it goes with varieties that are vernacular, basically, around the world.
With Patois, part of why maybe it has a slightly easier time is that it's more different.
So if you speak Patois, you speak something where, unless I listen closely and I have a little bit of training, I don't know what you're saying.
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Definitions of “patois”
A regional dialect (usually one considered substandard) of a language (especially French).
“[The Sundanese] are regarded as relatively barbarous, and in the company of Malays or Javanese, they are themselves ashamed of their dialect, which is looked on as a sort of rude patois.”
Any of various French, Franco-Provençal or Occitan dialects spoken in France.