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  2. Trinidadian Creole - Wikipedia

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    Trinidadian English Creole is an English-based creole language commonly spoken throughout the island of Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago. It is distinct from Tobagonian Creole – particularly at the basilectal level [ 2 ] – and from other Lesser Antillean English creoles.

  3. Cocoa panyols - Wikipedia

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    The Venezuelan and Colombian peasant cocoa-farm workers of the Venezuelan ancestry of Panyol landowners were referred to as Cocoa Panyols (or Cocoa Payols).The present-day Panyols of Trinidad and Tobago are descendants of those Venezuelan, Colombian, and Spanish Settlers, whose ancestors originated from Canary Islands, and Gulf of Paria and neighboring region ethnic indigenous Amerindians ...

  4. Creole peoples - Wikipedia

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    Creole is also known by cognates in other languages, such as crioulo, criollo, creolo, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kreol, kriol, krio, and kriyoyo. In Louisiana, the term Creole has been used since 1792 to represent descendants of African or mixed heritage parents as well as children of French and Spanish descent with no racial mixing.

  5. Trinidadians and Tobagonians - Wikipedia

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    The total population of Trinidad and Tobago was 1,328,019 according to the 2011 census, [8] an increase of 5.2 per cent since the 2000 census. According to the 2012 revision of the World Population Prospects the total population was estimated at 1,328,000 in 2010, compared to only 646,000 in 1950.

  6. English-based creole languages - Wikipedia

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    It is disputed to what extent the various English-based creoles of the world share a common origin. The monogenesis hypothesis [2] [3] posits that a single language, commonly called proto–Pidgin English, spoken along the West African coast in the early sixteenth century, was ancestral to most or all of the Atlantic creoles (the English creoles of both West Africa and the Americas).

  7. Trinidadian and Tobagonian English - Wikipedia

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    Trinidadian and Tobagonian English (TE) or Trinidadian and Tobagonian Standard English is a dialect of English used in Trinidad and Tobago. TE co-exists with both non-standard varieties of English as well as other dialects, namely Trinidadian Creole in Trinidad and Tobagonian Creole in Tobago .

  8. Culture of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

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    The cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago draws upon the varied origins of its people: Indian, African, Creole, European, Amerindian, Chinese, Arab, and Latin American. [citation needed] African Creole food commonly includes callaloo, macaroni pie and red beans. Indian food is based on curry.

  9. Creolization - Wikipedia

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    Creolization is the process through which creole languages and cultures emerge. [1] Creolization was first used by linguists to explain how contact languages become creole languages, but now scholars in other social sciences use the term to describe new cultural expressions brought about by contact between societies and relocated peoples. [2]