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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.
Liberian Settler English the language of the descendants of the 16,000 African Americans who immigrated to Liberia in the nineteenth century; 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 ...
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.
Liberian Kreyol; Ghanaian Pidgin (now also a Creole language) Nigerian Pidgin (now also a Creole language) Cameroonian Pidgin (now also a Creole language) Suriname Sranan Tongo (Surinamese Creole English) Saramaccan (Saramacca–Upper Suriname regions) Surinamese and French Guianese Maroons. Aluku; Ndyuka (Aukan, Eastern Maroon Creole), in ...
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.
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".
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[27] [28] As a result of their history, the Gambian Creole people, or Aku people of the Gambia, [29] [30] the Saro people of Nigeria, [31] [32] [33] and the Krio Fernandinos of Equatorial Guinea, [34] [35] [36] are sub-ethnic groups or partly descended from the Sierra Leone Creole people or their ancestors.