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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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| Salsa is a creolization of culture, sound, and expression and continues to invite new sources of inspiration to share the floor. Individual contributions include The Peopling of North America, Creolization in the French and Spanish Colonies, Archaeology and the African Diaspora on the Atlantic Seabord, Labor and Class in the American West, and more. Glissant privileges creolization as a site of resistance in a certain kind of center-periphery relationship: a nation's colonial or neocolonial relationship with its (former) colonizers. |
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