creoles
Pidgins become native
Creoles is the plural of creole, which refers to contact languages that developed when speakers of different languages came together, typically through colonization or the slave trade: Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole.
A creole is distinguished from a pidgin by being a fully developed native language passed to children.
The term also describes people of mixed European and Black descent in various regions, or descendants of original French or Spanish settlers in Louisiana.
Creole cuisine blends French, African, and Caribbean influences. (Capitalized Creoles emphasizes the ethnic or cultural identity.)
Science of language structure
- pidginImprovised contact language
- patoisRegional informal speech
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- creolizationPidgin maturing into mother tongue
grammar · syntax · morphology · phonology · lexicon · code-switching · bilingualism · diglossia
Domination through foreign settlement
- slaveryOwnership of people
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
- LouisianaGulf Coast pelican state
Mauritius · Réunion · Seychelles · Guinea-Bissau · Suriname · migration · Atlantic · Pacific
linguistics
Science of language structure
- pidginImprovised contact language
- patoisRegional informal speech
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
creolization · grammar · syntax · morphology · phonology · lexicon · code-switching · bilingualism · diglossia · multilingualism
colonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
- slaveryOwnership of people
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
Louisiana · Mauritius · Réunion · Seychelles · Guinea-Bissau · Suriname · migration · Atlantic · Pacific · contact
- languagelanguage, word, words, grammar, spelling
- Latin AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba
- earringsearrings, studs, hoops, dangles, drops
- etymologyword origins, word history, word origin, etymon, root words
- Language phenomenaloanwords, borrowings, pidgins, dialects, slang
- Colonial Americasconquistadors, colonization, Spanish conquest, encomienda, viceroyalty
creolesancestral languages
Family lineage speech traditions
classical languages · proto-languages · indigenous languages
- 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