creole
Pidgin grown native
Creole has two related meanings.
A creole language develops when speakers of different languages come together and their children grow up speaking a new, fully developed language combining elements of both—distinct from a pidgin, which is a simplified contact language.
Creole also describes people of mixed European and African or Caribbean descent, or specifically in Louisiana, descendants of early French and Spanish settlers.
The word applies to the culture, cuisine, and customs of these communities: creole cooking, creole music. (Capitalized Creole often refers specifically to Louisiana French culture.)
Improvised contact language
- patoisRegional informal speech
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- dialectRegional language variety
- linguisticsScience of language structure
bilingualism · multilingualism · code-switching · lingua franca · creolization · sociolinguistics · diglossia · lexicon
Organized auditory art
- zoukFrench Caribbean dance genre
- carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
- festivalOrganized public celebration
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
cuisine · gumbo · jambalaya · roux · zydeco · Mardi Gras · voodoo · hoodoo
Family line of descent
- ethnicityShared cultural heritage group
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
- belongingState of fitting in
diaspora · multiracial · hybridity · mestizo · mulatto · mixed-race · assimilation · self-identification
Combining into uniformity
- synthesisCombining parts into whole
- amalgamationUniting into one
- hybridizationMixing distinct genetic lines
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
intermingling · mixing · adaptation · evolution · contact · exchange · influence · borrowing
pidgin
Improvised contact language
- patoisRegional informal speech
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- dialectRegional language variety
linguistics · bilingualism · multilingualism · code-switching · lingua franca · creolization · sociolinguistics · diglossia · lexicon · syntax
music
Organized auditory art
- zoukFrench Caribbean dance genre
- carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
- festivalOrganized public celebration
dance · cuisine · gumbo · jambalaya · roux · zydeco · Mardi Gras · voodoo · hoodoo · folktales
ancestry
Family line of descent
- ethnicityShared cultural heritage group
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
belonging · diaspora · multiracial · hybridity · mestizo · mulatto · mixed-race · assimilation · self-identification · kinship
blending
Combining into uniformity
- synthesisCombining parts into whole
- amalgamationUniting into one
- hybridizationMixing distinct genetic lines
convergence · intermingling · mixing · adaptation · evolution · contact · exchange · influence · borrowing · integration
- languagelanguage, word, words, grammar, spelling
- languagesEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, German, French
- CaribbeanJamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Haiti
- cultural diversitycultural diversity, ethnic enclave, ethnic neighborhoods, Chinatown, Little Italy
- Cultural Fusionfusion cuisine, fusion jazz, fusion dance, syncretism, hybridity
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
creolestandard language
Codified, official linguistic form
official language · ancestral language · national language · classical language · heritage language
creoleindigenous
Originating in a region
native · metropolitan · peninsular · pure-blood · unmixed
- Creole seasoningLouisiana-style spice blend
- shrimp creoleShellfish in spiced tomato sauce
- Creole cuisineLouisiana's multicultural food heritage
- creole cooking
- creole cultureFused post-contact cultural system
- Louisiana CreoleFrench-based contact language