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Noun: patois  'pa,twaa
  1. A characteristic language of a particular group
    "they don't speak our patois";
    - slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, vernacular
     
  2. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard

Type of: accent, dialect, idiom, non-standard speech

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