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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. |
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| Ulf Hannerz, "The World in Creolisation," Africa, 57 (1987): 546-559. As the producer of a post-colonial text, Mda refuses to replace one set of binaries with another, but instead sets in motion a process of open-ended dialogue between the indignant patriarchalism of the South African state towards the existence of so-called mixed-race people on the one hand, and the subversive delight in creolisation taken by so many postcolonial texts on the other. The recovery of historical creolisation is a key intervention in the search for a language to engage racialisation. |
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