Creole language
Haitian national speech
A Creole language refers to one of several specific languages developed through creolization, often named for their location or dominant source language: Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Cape Verdean Creole.
The capitalization signals reference to a particular language community and its cultural identity: She grew up speaking Creole at home and French at school. (Lowercase creole language is the general linguistic category.)
- patoisRegional informal speech
- broken EnglishImperfect foreign language use
- FrenchOf or from Paris's nation
- AfricanOf that southern continent
- slave tradeCommerce in human beings
colonial history · Haiti · Caribbean · creolization · Martinique · Guadeloupe · island life · Indian Ocean · plantation · sugar cane · gumbo · relexification · reduplication · oral tradition · code switching · endangered languages · Port-au-Prince · blended
- Caribbean cultureAfro-Caribbean, calypso, reggae, steel drums, steel drum
- Louisiana CreoleNew Orleans, gumbo, jambalaya, French Quarter, beignets
- Saint LuciaCanaries, Independence Day, Lucian
- Border CulturesTex-Mex, Cajun, border towns, mestizo, Anglo-Indian
- Guiana slaverySuriname, French Guiana, Demerara, maroons, plantation economy
- SeychellesVictoria, outer islands, coral islands, rupee, North Island
Creole languagestandard language
Codified, official linguistic form
official language · national language · classical language · colonial language · dominant language
Creole languageheritage language
Language of one's ancestors
ancestral language · artificial language · substrate language · proto-language · language isolate