Lawyers of Saint Lucia

Language Vitality of Saint Lucia

Demographic and Linguistic Survey
Timeline: 1st October 2021 - 1st November 2021

1. Please indicate which of the following best describe (s) you.

Rows	Age	Gender	Ethnicity/race	Highest level of education	Citizenship
Description

2. Please indicate your family's history in Saint Lucia.

Rows	You	Your Parents	Your Grandparents
Status

3. Please indicate who you lived with while you were growing up?

4. Please indicate where you have lived in Saint Lucia?

Rows	Current address	Length of time (you lived there)
Where do you currently live?
Where did you live before that?

5. Please rank the languages you use most often to communicate and your proficiency. Note: Selecting only "listen (understand)" encompasses scenarios where one can comprehend but not converse in a language.*

Rows	Language	Age when you first learned it	Place you learned it	Speak/ Sign	Read	Write	Listen/ Understand
First language
Second language
Third language

6a. Please indicate which of the following best describes information about your parents (if they have passed away, include the most recent information).*

Rows	First language /dialect	Other languages /dialects	Birth year (approx.)	Ethnicity /race	Religion	Highest education level	Profession (before retirement)	Where s/he was raised	Where s/he lives now
Mother
Father

6b. Please indicate which of the following best describes the language that they used.*

Rows	At home when s/he was young	At home, now	With their spouse	At work	With their relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.)	With their neighbors
Mother
Father

7a. Please indicate which of the following best describes information about your grandparents (if they have passed away, include the most recent information).*

Rows	First language /dialect	Other languages /dialects	Birth year (approx.)	Ethnicity /race	Religion	Highest education level	Profession (before retirement)	Where s/he was raised	Where s/he lives now
Mother’s mother
Mother’s father
Father’s mother
Father’s father

7b. Please indicate which of the following best describes the language that s/he uses/used.*

Rows	At home when s/he was young	At home, now	With their spouse	At work	With their relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.)	With their neighbors
Mother’s mother
Mother’s father
Father’s mother
Father’s father

8a. Please indicate which of the following best describes information about your spouse and children (if already married/have children).*

Rows	First language /dialect	Other languages /dialects	Birth year (approx.)	Ethnicity /race	Religion	Highest education level	Profession (before retirement)	Where s/he was raised	Where s/he lives now
Husband/ wife
First child
Second child
Third child

8b. Please indicate which of the following best describes the language that s/he uses/used.*

Rows	At home when s/he was young	At home, now	With their spouse	At work	With their relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.)	With their neighbors
Husband/ wife
First child
Second child
Third child

9. Please rank the languages you use most often to communicate and your proficiency. Note: Selecting only "listen (understand)" encompasses scenarios where one can comprehend but not converse in a language.*

Rows	Language
With your mother
With your father
With your siblings
With your grandparents
With your spouse (if married)
With your relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.)
With your neighbors
With your maid/domestic help
When you are angry
In your dreams
When counting
Sending text messages to your family
Sending text messages to your friends
Sending text messages to your spouse
In social media (Facebook)
Praying privately
Praying in a place of worship
In your house
At your workplace
At the market
At a coffee shop
At the bank
At the post office
In elementary school with the teacher
In elementary school with classmates
In high school with the teacher
In high school with classmates
On public transportation
Reading novels
Reading the newspaper
Reading magazines
Listening to music
Listening to the radio
Watching TV

10. Please indicate which languages and categories best reflect your typical interactions with others in Saint Lucia. This question only requires one response per row.*

Rows	Never	Very Rarely	Rarely	Occasionally	Frequently	Very Frequently
Any form of sign language
English
Saint Lucian Kwéyòl (Antillean Creole/ Patois)
Unfamiliar languages
Haitian Creole
Guadeloupean Creole
French
Spanish
Japanese
Korean
Papiamento
Dutch (including Afrikaans)
Amerindian (including Arawakan, Cariban, etc.)
Portuguese (or any Romance language not mentioned)
Irish (or any Celtic language not mentioned)
Arabic (or any Afro-Asiatic language not mentioned)
Swahili (or any Niger-Congo/ African language not mentioned)
Hindi (or any Indo-Iranian/ Dravidian language not mentioned)
Swedish (or any North Germanic/ Uralic language not mentioned)
German (or any West Germanic language not mentioned)
Russian (Armenian or any Balto-Slavic language not mentioned)
Turkish (or any Turkic/ Altaic language not mentioned)
Greek (or any Hellenic/ Armenian/ Albanian language not mentioned)
Mandarin (or any Sino-Tibetan language not mentioned)
Indonesian (or any Austronesian/ Austroasiatic/ Kra-Dai language not mentioned)

Rows	Strongly	Agree	Agree Somewhat	Agree	Disagree Strongly	Disagree
It is important to me to master Saint Lucian Kwéyòl.
My children should master my first language.
It is not polite to use my local language around people who do not understand it.
If a person is not fluent in my local language, it is best that they not use it at all.
It seems old-fashioned to use local languages.
If people want to succeed in the workplace they should understand Saint Lucian Kwéyòl.
It is important to me to master the official language of Saint Lucia.
It is important to me to master English.
In order to move forward and succeed in the future, a person must use English.
In order to understand the increasingly globalizing world, a person must use English.
It is important to master foreign languages other than English.

Rows	Options
15a. Would you like to see the development of online materials in Saint Lucian Kwéyòl (Antillean Creole/Patios)?
15b. Do you think you would use it?

Language Vitality of Saint Lucia

Timeline: 1st October 2021 - 1st November 2021