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The word Creole, a word of Spanish origin which came into English from French between 1595 and 1605, (and its cognates in other languages, such as criollo, crioulo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kriulo, kriol, krio, etc.) may refer to
- a person of Spanish (or French or Portuguese) ancestry but born in one of the Spanish (or French) colonies, as opposed to a Spaniard (or Frenchman or Portuguese) born in Spain (or France or Portugal)
- any of the Creole peoples, a number of distinct ethnic groups in various countries
- a creole language, a type of language formed from a pidgin
- the Creole Pig, a pig breed from Haiti
- a casual reference to mean "pertaining to New Orleans" or aspects of its culture
- a programming database abstraction layer for PHP5 named Creole
- La Compagnie Creole, an 80's french pop band
Creoles and Patois
In the islands under French influence like Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Martin, St. Barts, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, Désirade... or Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion Island... nearly all the population speaks a creole as first language...
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Educational materials (Pidgin/Creole), Pidgin/Creole :: An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction.. http://tinyurl.com/yebtzg9
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Educational materials (Pidgin/Creole), Pidgin/Creole :: An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction.. http://tinyurl.com/yebtzg9
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Accounting for Creole Reflexive Forms - Full text of a 2001 paper by Bernd Heine.
Archives of CreoLIST - Searchable archive of the most recent postings to the CreoLIST listserv.
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Attributive Possession in Creoles - Full text of a 2000 paper by Heine and Kuteva.
CC: Pidgin Carriers - Introductory article on the topic of pidgin and creole languages.
Creole Language - A definition of the term creole.
Creole Romance Numerals - Tables of the names of numerals in various Romance-Language-based creoles.
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Creolization is a Social, Not a Structural, Process - Paper presented at the International Symposium on Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages.
Ditransitive constructions : Creole Languages in a Cross-linguistic Perspective – Susanne Michaelis et Martin Haspelmath - A comparison transitive verbs in creole and pidgin languages by Susanne Michaelis and Martin Haspelmath.
Germanic Creole Numerals - Tables of the names of numerals in various Germanic-Language-based creoles.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages - A journal of all aspects of pidginization and creolization. A few full-text articles are available on-line. There is also an extensive glossary of creolist terminology.
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Language Varieties: Definitions - Definitions of creolepidgindialect and variety are given.
Linguist List 7.1721: Creolistics - A discussion of whether Afrikaans and Yiddish are creole or creoloid.
Pidgin - A definition of the term pidgin.
Pidgin and Creole Languages - Notes for a course in pidgin and creole languages. Discusses theories of pidginization, creolization and language contact.
Pidgin Genesis in Optimality Theory - A conference paper by Joan Bresnan.
Pidgins and Creoles - Basic facts about pidgins and creoles with examples.
Pidgins and Creoles Archive - A distribution point for research papers on Pidgins and Creoles, hosted by the University of Siegen, Germany.
Meta Description: [ ROA is a collection of searchable, downloadable papers and dissertations on generativelinguistics, esp. syntax and phonology, under Optimality Theory., PCA Homepage ]
Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages - Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages.
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Psycholinguistics: Pidgin and Creole languages - An introduction to pidgins and creoles.
Reference Guide for Pidgin and Creole Languages - Bibliographic guide to contact language reference material available at Stanford University.
Review of John Holm on Pidgins and Creoles - A brief review of John Holm's An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
Meta Description: [ obviously intended to be a textbook for linguistics students, but the bulk of it is general enough to be of wider appeal... ]
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Selected Publications and Papers on Creole Languages - Tense/Aspect in Sranan and the creole prototype,Creoles and Contact Linguistics, and Irrealis in Sranan: Mood and modality in a radical creole
Why Do Creoles Have Serial Verb Constructions? - A paper by Eric Schiller.
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