Patois

Patois (sometimes also Patwa or Patwah ) stands for:

• Patois (French language) , dialects of the French language
• Patois, an old Franco-Provencal language in Switzerland that is practically extinct today, see Swiss French
• Jamaican-Creole language ( Patois , also Patwa or Patwah ), Creole language in Jamaica, Costa Rica, Panama
• Antilles Creole ( Patois , also Patwa ), Creole language in the Lesser Antilles

Patwa is a family name for the following people:

• Karim Patwa (* 1968), Swiss film director and screenwriter
• Sunderlal Patwa (1924-2016), Indian politician

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.