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  2. French-based creole languages - Wikipedia

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    It is also the most-spoken creole language in the world and is based largely on 17th-century French with influences from Portuguese, Spanish, English, Taíno, and West African languages. [4] It is an official language in Haiti. Louisiana Creole (Kréyol la Lwizyàn, [citation needed] locally called Kourí-Viní and Creole), the Louisiana creole ...

  3. Haitian Creole - Wikipedia

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    Castelline, a speaker of Haitian Creole, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; [6] [7] French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official ...

  4. Creole language - Wikipedia

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    A creole language, [2] [3] [4] or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period. [5]

  5. French creole - Wikipedia

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    Saint Lucian Creole, a French-based creole language spoken in Saint Lucia; People and cultures. French Creoles a historic ethnic group of French ancestry born in the colonial western French territories outside France; French Antillean Creole Caribbean people are considered Latines and Latinos and are part of Latin America

  6. Réunion Creole - Wikipedia

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    Réunion Creole is the main vernacular of the island and is used in most colloquial and familiar settings. It is, however, in a state of diglossia with French as the high language – Réunion Creole is used in informal settings and conversations, while French is the language of writing, education, administration and more formal conversations.

  7. List of creole languages - Wikipedia

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    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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  9. Louisiana French - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana French: "la lumière de le ciel" Standard French: "la lumière du ciel" Such contraction avoidance is a purely oral phenomenon, and written registers in Louisiana do not highly differ from Standard French.