 In addition, most of the population can also speak Guadeloupean Creole, a variety of Antillean Creole.Traditionally stigmatised as the language of the Creole majority, attitudes have changed in recent decades.In the early 1970s to the mid 1980s Guadeloupe saw the rise and fall of an at-times violent movement for (greater) political independence from France, and Creole was claimed as key to local cultural pride and unity.