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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable form of contact 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 speakers, all within a fairly brief period. While the concept is similar to that of a…

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Creole language

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Creole language

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related to Further reading · 158
Creole language → Actes, Africa, African, Against Creole Exceptionalism, Amsterdam, AmsterdamLang, Amériques, An, Arends, Atlantic Creoles, Bastard Tongues, Baton Rouge, BattlebridgeSingler, Benjamins, Borchsenius, Born Out, Cambridge, Cambridge University PressHunter Smith, Cap Vert, Carsten
related to "Creole", a sociohistoric concept · 29
Creole language → Along, Berbice Creole Dutch, Creole, Creoleness, Creoles, DeGraff, Gil, Haitian Creole, Henri Wittmann, In McWhorter's, John McWhorter, Law, Magoua French, Manding, McWhorter, McWhorter's, Michel DeGraff, Mikael Parkvall, Mufwene, Muysken
related to Geographic distribution · 26
Creole language → Africa, Americas, As, Australia, Australian Kriol, Caribbean, Chavacano, European, European-based, Goa, Hong Kong, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Many, Mauritius, Oceania, Philippines
related to Etymology · 22
Creole language → Africa, African, Brazil, Creole, European, French, However, Iberian Peninsula, Kreyol, Kreyòl, Krio, Kriol, Kréol, Latin, Originally, Over, Portuguese, Spain, Spanish, The
related to External links · 17
Creole language → Answers, APiCS, Archived, Creole Language Structures, Creole Linguistics Archived, International Magazine Kreol Archived, Language Terminology, Louisiana Creole Dictionary Archived, ODLT, Online Dictionary, Pidgin, Portuguese, Spanish Lexically-based CreolesLanguage VarietiesCreole, Wayback Machine, Wayback MachineAssociation, Wayback MachineAtlas, Wayback MachineSociety
related to Exceptionalism · 12
Creole language → Building, Creole, Gil, Henri Wittmann, McWhorter, Michel DeGraff, Riau Indonesian, Robert Chaudenson, Salikoko Mufwene, Saramaccan, The, Wittmann
related to Substrate and superstrate · 12
Creole language → African, As, Atlantic Creoles, Breton, Etruscan, European, However, In, On, Papiamento, The, Venetian
related to Creoles by parent language · 8
Creole language → Andaman Creole HindiJapanese-based, Arabic-based, Bishnupriya ManipuriChinese-based, KitubaMalay-based, Kutchi-Swahili, NagameseBengali-Meitei, SangoPortuguese-based, VeddaSwahili-based
related to Historic classification · 8
Creole language → According, By, English, For, French, However, Phylogenetic, Portuguese
related to Social and political status · 7
Creole language → Another, Because, Creole, European, Hugo Schuchardt, Johannes Schmidt, This

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Englishinstance ofThese are predominantly based on European languages0.80text
French due to the colonizationinstance ofThese are predominantly based on European languages0.80text
the Atlantic slave trade that arose at that timeinstance ofThese are predominantly based on European languages0.80text
Mauritiusinstance ofisland countries0.80text
Seychellesinstance ofisland countries0.80text
in the Indian Ocean.Atlantic Creole languages are based on European languages with elements from Africaninstance ofisland countries0.80text
possibly Amerindian languagesinstance ofisland countries0.80text
the Bullominstance ofEnglish-speaking traders began to settle in the Gambia and Sierra Leone rivers as well as in neighboring areas0.80text
Sherbro coastsinstance ofEnglish-speaking traders began to settle in the Gambia and Sierra Leone rivers as well as in neighboring areas0.80text
McWhorterinstance ofthe Atlantic slave trade and the plantation system of the European colonies have been emphasized as factors by linguists0.80text
Mandinginstance ofargue that languages0.80text
Soninkeinstance ofargue that languages0.80text

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