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creole language (krēōl`), any language that began as a pidgin pidgin (pĭj`ən), a lingua franca that is not the mother tongue of anyone using it and that has a simplified grammar and a ..... Click the link for more information. but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the original mother tongue or tongues. Examples are the Gullah Gullah (gŭl`ə), a creole language formerly spoken by the Gullah, an African-American community of the Sea Islands and the Middle ..... Click the link for more information. of South Carolina and Georgia (based on English), the creole of Haiti (based on French), and the Papiamento of Curaçao (developed from pidgin Spanish and Portuguese). Similarities among creoles worldwide have led some linguists to speculate that they share a common origin, probably Sabir (see lingua franca lingua franca (lĭng`gwə frăng`kə) ..... Click the link for more information. ); others attribute the similarities to universal laws governing human language. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Creole language of Glissant's Martinique makes the French in France uneasy because it seems a bastardization of "pure French. Cendrillon introduces young readers to the native culture and Creole language of the French West Indies, with a simple narrative about how love, faith, perseverance and divine intervention can overcome evil. These findings support the view of some linguists that children can create so-called creole languages from simpler, nongrammatical tongues used between speakers of different languages. |
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