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The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo, a diminutive of cria meaning a person raised in one's house.Cria is derived from criar, meaning "to raise or bring up", itself derived from the Latin creare, meaning "to make, bring forth, produce, beget"; which is also the source of the English word "create".
Haitian Creole is used widely among Haitians who have relocated to other countries, particularly the United States and Canada. Some of the larger Creole-speaking populations are found in Montreal , Quebec (where French is the official language), New York City , Boston , and Central and South Florida ( Miami , Fort Lauderdale , and Palm Beach ).
Louisiana Creole (Kréyol La Lwizyàn) is a French Creole [88] language spoken by the Louisiana Creole people and sometimes Cajuns and Anglo-residents of the state of Louisiana. The language consists of elements of French, Spanish, African (mainly from the Senegambian region), [ 89 ] and Native American roots.
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]
Louisiana Creole people, people descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana before it became a part of the United States during the period of both French and Spanish rule; Creole language, a language that originated as a mixed language. Many creole languages are known by their speakers as some variant of "creole", for example spelled ...
Bahamian Creole; Turks and Caicos Creole English; Gullah language (Sea Islands Creole English) Afro-Seminole Creole; Southern Virgin Islands Creole (Netherlands Antilles Creole English) Crucian: Spoken on Saint Croix. Saint Martin Creole English: Spoken in Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Martin. Leeward Caribbean Creole English. Anguillan Creole ...
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).
Creole cuisine (French: cuisine créole; Portuguese: culinária crioula; Spanish: cocina criolla) is a cuisine style born in colonial times, from the fusion between African, European and pre-Columbian traditions. Creole is a term that refers to those of European origin who were born in the New World and have adapted to it (melting pot). [1]