Anthropological linguistics approaches language use and language planning as culturally informed, ideologically shaped social practice. Drawing on an anthropological linguistic perspective, it analyzes efforts to disseminate a standardized orthography for Guadeloupean Kréyòl that clearly distinguishes it from French. Conflicts over writing Kréyòl and the forms it should take are part of a broader ideological struggle over Kréyòl and Guadeloupean identity in relation to French language and French identity. Kréyòl literacy education is becoming more widespread, but views on Kréyòl writing remain ambivalent and most Kréyòl writing does not adhere to the standardized orthographic conventions.