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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 Koloqua 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.
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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 the West African Pidgin English that developed all along the West African coast in the eighteenth century. It has been significantly ...
Merico or Americo-Liberian (or the informal colloquial name "American") is an English-based creole language spoken until recently in Liberia by Americo-Liberians, descendants of original settlers, freed slaves, and African Americans who emigrated from the United States between 1821 and the 1870s.
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 .
Andrew Dalby noted the historical importance of the Kru languages for their position at the crossroads of African-European interaction. He wrote that "Kru and associated languages were among the first to be encountered by European voyagers on what was then known as the Pepper Coast, a centre of the production and export of Guinea and melegueta pepper; a once staple African seaborne trade". [2]
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