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Louisiana Creole (Kréyol La Lwizyàn) is a French Creole language spoken by the Louisiana Creole people and sometimes Cajuns and Anglo-residents of the state of Louisiana. The language consists of elements of French, Spanish, African and Native American roots.
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Born into a society that valued the contributions of the gens de couleur libres, wealthy French Creoles, who were plantation owners, merchants and government officials, entered common law marriages with free and enslaved African women as well as Native Americans, primarily from the Choctaw and Mobile tribes. These open arrangements, known as plaçag...
The practice of plaçage branched out from New Orleans northwest towards Baton Rouge and southwest towards St Martin Parish, which became the heart of rural Creole country. After the Civil War, independent enclaves of freed Creole slaves sprang up around the prosperous sugar cane, cotton and corn plantations that dotted the mighty Mississippi River ...
Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, dealt a blow to the already fragile Creole culture. In the aftermath, the Creole diaspora is gravitating toward the low-lying marshlands near Natchitoches as the new cultural centre. Grassroots campaigns by groups such as the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center in Natchitoches Parish are diligen...
Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the US state of Louisiana. Also known as Kouri-Vini, it is spoken today by people who may racially identify as white, black, mixed, and Native American, as well as Cajun and Creole.
Louisiana Creoles are a Louisiana French ethnic group descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana before it became a part of the United States during the period of both French and Spanish rule. They share cultural ties such as the traditional use of the French, Spanish, and Creole languages and predominant practice of Catholicism.
