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Liberian Kreyol (also known as Kolokwa or Liberian Kolokwa English) is an Atlantic English-based creole language spoken in Liberia. [1] It was spoken by 1,500,000 people as a second language at the 1984 census which accounted for about 70% of the population at the time.
Liberia is a multilingual country where more than 20 indigenous languages are spoken. English is the official language, and Liberian Kreyol is the vernacular lingua franca, though mostly spoken as a second language. The native Niger–Congo languages can be grouped in four language families: Mande, Kru, Mel, and the divergent language Grebo.
Liberian Settler English the language of the descendants of the 16,000 African Americans who immigrated to Liberia in the nineteenth century; Kru Pidgin English the language of Kru migrant workers and mariners. It is now moribund. Liberian Kreyol the creolized variety spoken by most Liberian speakers of English. It is the Liberian descendant of ...
Pages in category "Languages of Liberia" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... Liberian Kreyol; Loma language; M. Maninka language; Mano ...
Kreyol may mean: Antillean Creole French (Kreyol) Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) Liberian Kreyol language (Kreyol) Louisiana Creole French (Kréyol lwizyàn) Guianan Creole init (French Guianan Creole)) (Kréyòl gwiyanè) Sranan Tongo (Surinamese Creole) (Sranan Tongo)
A creole language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin , a simplified form that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups, a creole language is a complete language, used in a community and acquired by children as their native language .
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