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A Guadeloupe Creole sign stating Lévé pié aw / Ni ti moun ka joué la!, meaning "Slow down / Children are playing here!". A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often, a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native ...
Apr 13, 2024 · Some linguists extend the term creole to varieties that emerged from contacts between primarily non-European languages. Examples from Africa include Sango, a creole based on the Ngbandi language and spoken in the Central African Republic; Kinubi, based on the Arabic language and spoken in Uganda; and Kikongo-Kituba and Lingala, which are based on Kikongo-Kimanyanga and Bobangi, respectively ...
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Jul 3, 2019 · Decreolization is the process by which a creole language gradually becomes more like the standard language of a region (or the acrolect). The language that provides a creole with most of its vocabulary is called the lexifier language. For example, the lexifier language of Gullah (also called Sea Island Creole English) is English .
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Aug 11, 2020 · Creole languages are spoken around the world. Image credit: Casimiro PT/Shutterstock. Créole languages are languages that developed in colonial European plantation settlements. They most often emerged near the coasts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Créole languages result from mixing between nonstandard European languages and non-European ...
Créole. Creole, originally, any person of European (mostly French or Spanish) or African descent born in the West Indies or parts of French or Spanish America (and thus naturalized in those regions rather than in the parents’ home country). The term has since been used with various meanings, often conflicting or varying from region to region.
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A Haitian Creole speaker, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the ...
1. Preliminaries. Creole languages have a curious status in linguistics, and at the same time they often have very low prestige in the societies in which they are spoken. These two facts may be related. To begin with their social status, many creole languages are spoken by descendants of enslaved Africans or of transplanted inhabitants of ...
