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Many of the speakers of Sierra Leone Krio live in or close to the capital city, Freetown. As of 2007, there were close to 350,000 individuals who spoke Krio as a primary language. Even more individuals were using it as a main language for communication purposes in the country as a whole. [16]
Castelline, a speaker of Haitian Creole, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; [6] [7] French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official ...
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.
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]
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
Yes (English-based creole language) The Bahamas [2] BHS Caribbean 331,000 Yes (English-based creole language) Barbados [3] BRB Caribbean 294,000 Yes (English-based creole language) Belize [4] BLZ Central America: 288,000 Yes (English-based creole language) Botswana [4] BWA Africa: 1,882,000 Yes Burundi [5] BDI Africa 10,114,505 No Cameroon [2 ...
(excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 484 million 74 million 558 million Modern Standard Arabic (excl. dialects) Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 0 [a] 332 million 335 million French (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 74 million 238 million 312 million Bengali: Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 242 million 43 million 284 million Portuguese
(There is a distinction between "Creole" people and the "creole" language. Not all Creoles speak creole—many speak French, Spanish, or English as primary languages.) Spoken creole is dying with continued 'Americanization' in the area. Most remaining Creole lexemes have drifted into popular culture. Traditional creole is spoken among those ...