Creole (language)/Related Articles

Parent topics

Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. ^[e]
Multilingualism [r]: The state of knowing two or more languages, either in individuals or whole speech communities. ^[e]
Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. ^[e]
Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. ^[e]

Contact language [r]: any language which is created through contact between two or more existing languages; may occur when people who share no native language need to communicate, or when a language of one group becomes used for wider communication. ^[e]
Lingua franca [r]: Any language used for widespread communication between groups who do not share a native language or where native speakers are typically in the minority; name from 'Lingua Franca', a pidgin once used around the Mediterranean. ^[e]
Pidgin [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Pidgin (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Diglossia [r]: Linguistic situation in which two (often very closely related) languages are used within one speech community, for different purposes. ^[e]

Some examples of creoles worldwide

Sranan language [r]: Add brief definition or description
Haitian creole language [r]: Add brief definition or description
Gullah language [r]: Add brief definition or description
Jamaican Creole [r]: Several varieties of a full language spoken in Jamaica that developed from a pidgin and remained in some contact with English, created as a conseqence of enslaved speakers of many African languages requiring a means to communicate; also known as Patois. ^[e]

Afrikaans language [r]: West-Germanic language descended from and still closely related to Dutch; spoken by many people in South Africa and Namibia. ^[e]
Singapore English [r]: Varieties of English spoken in Singapore, including Singapore Standard English (SSE) and Singapore Colloquial English (SCE, or 'Singlish'). ^[e]
English language [r]: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. ^[e]