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An English-based creole language (often shortened to English creole) is a creole language for which English was the lexifier, meaning that at the time of its formation the vocabulary of English served as the basis for the majority of the creole's lexicon. [1] Most English creoles were formed in British colonies, following the great expansion of ...
Like other Caribbean English-based creoles, Trinidadian English Creole has a primarily English-derived vocabulary.The island also has a creole with a largely French lexicon, which was in widespread use until the late nineteenth century, when it started to be gradually replaced, due to influence and pressure from the British.
English is the lexifier of English-based creole languages, such as: Jamaican Patois [4] Belizean Creole [5] Miskito Coast Creole [6] San Andres Creole English [7] Singapore Colloquial English, a.k.a. "Singlish" French is the lexifier of French-based creole languages, such as: Antillean Creole [8] French Guianese Creole [9] Haitian Creole [10 ...
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]
Antiguan and Barbudan Creole first emerged during the 18th century as an English-lexifer Creole. [3] While it thus adopted many features of the English language everything from the creole's lexicon to its phonology reflects Antigua's more nuanced history.
Female patois speaker saying two sentences A Jamaican Patois speaker discussing the usage of the language. Jamaican Patois (/ ˈ p æ t w ɑː /; locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with influences from West African and other languages, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.
It descends directly from Krio, the English-lexicon Creole that rose to become the language of the Creole community of Freetown, Sierra Leone in the late 18th century. [12] Throughout the better part of the 19th century, this community, which had emerged from the horrors of slavery and the slave trade, began to forge a vibrant African-European ...
The Middle English creole hypothesis is a proposal that Middle English was a creole, which is usually defined as a language that develops during contact between two groups speaking different languages and that loses much of the grammatical elaboration of its source languages in the process.