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Creole language — A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language developed from the mixing of parent languages; creoles differ from pidgins (which are believed by scholars to be necessary precedents of creoles) in that they have been nativized … Wikipedia
Haitian Creole language — language name=Haitian Creole nativename=Kreyòl ayisyen =Créole Haïtien states=Haiti (Official), Bahamas, Dominican Republic, French Guiana [http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/hat/view?searchterm=Haitian%20Creole] speakers= Approximately 12… … Wikipedia
Creole — may refer to: Languages A Creole language is a stable, full fledged language that originated from a pidgin or combination of other languages. Creole languages subgroups may include: Arabic based creole languages Dutch based creole languages… … Wikipedia
Language contact — occurs when two or more languages or varieties interact. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Multilingualism has likely been common throughout much of human history, and today most people in the world are multilingual.[1] … Wikipedia
Language survey — Language surveys are conducted around the world for a variety of reasons, by a variety of agencies and people. *measuring people’s ability to speak and understand another language (usually community based, not school based) (multilingualism)… … Wikipedia
creole languages — ▪ linguistics Introduction vernacular languages that developed in colonial European plantation settlements in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of contact between groups that spoke mutually unintelligible languages. Creole languages… … Universalium
Creole peoples — This article is about the peoples. For the languages, see Creole languages. For other meanings, see Creole (disambiguation). The term Creole and its cognates in other languages such as crioulo, criollo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kreol,… … Wikipedia
Language bioprogram theory — The Language bioprogram theory or Language bioprogram hypothesis (LBH) is a theory arguing that the structural similarities between different creole languages cannot be solely attributed to their superstrate and substrate languages. As… … Wikipedia
Creole — /kree ohl/, n. 1. a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry. 2. a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry. 3. (sometimes l.c.) a person of mixed black and European, esp. French… … Universalium
creole — [[t]kri͟ːoʊl[/t]] creoles also Creole 1) N VAR A creole is a language that has developed from a mixture of different languages and has become the main language in a particular place. She begins speaking in the Creole of Haiti. ...French Creole.… … English dictionary
