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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A dialect formed from two languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
Etymologies
- French créole, from Spanish criollo, person native to a locality, from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria, person raised in the house, especially a servant, from criar, to bring up, from Latin creāre, to beget; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“You might want to read up on the term creole, friend.”
“The relationship between pidgin and creole is a fantastic analogy of the relationship between social software and the semantic web.”
“Similarly in the chapter about the way that the Portuguese language unites (or separates) Lusofonia, I’d love to have links to videos from Sri Lanka, where a Portuguese creole is still spoken in a few villages.”
“Again, I brought up the evolution of Indian English as a positive thing and I have never stated that a creole is a blight on the world…there seem to be a lot of blanks that you are creating and filling in on your own.”
“Later the so-called mulatos picked up the term crillos aka creole and used the popular term as an identity.”
Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus and Hector E. Sanchez: A Latino for the Supreme Court? It's Time
“Michif was not a pidgin language, nor was it what linguists call a creole language a pidgin that becomes a native tongue, which also has simplified rules of grammar and syntax.”
“A creole is the combination of one or more languages into a new, stable language.”
“The role of language contact in giving rise to similarities between languages that cut across family tree boundaries; this includes in particular work on perhaps the most extreme instances of language contact, namely creole and pidgin languages.”
“A variety of stories were circulated, some pretended to trace the crime to the Intendant's wife, whilst others alleged that the avenging mother of the creole was the assassin; some again urged that”
“Madame de Fontanges was a creole, that is, born in the West Indies, of”
sionnach of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both.
A language derived from a pidgin but more complex in grammar and vocabulary than the ancestral pidgin because it has become the native tongue of a community.
Feb 26, 2007