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1 (National)
English
[eng]
1 (National). De facto national language. 41,700 in Saint Lucia, all users. L1 users: 1,700 in Saint Lucia (2021 Joshua Project). L2 users: 40,000 (Crystal 2003a).
5 (Developing)
American Sign Language
[ase]
5* (Developing). 200 in Saint Lucia (Parks and Williams 2011). Estimated 160–300 deaf signers (Parks and Williams 2011), 0.1%–0.2% of the total population.
Lesser Antillean French Creole
[acf]
5* (Developing). De facto language of national identity. 131,000 in Saint Lucia (2016). Total users in all countries: 702,353.
Unestablished
French
[fra]
Unestablished. 2,910 in Saint Lucia (Beck et al 2018), L2 users.
