“A language formed when a mixture of a European language with a local language (especially an African language spoken by slaves in the West Indies) is spoken as a first language.” According to Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, a creole is defined as: It’s essentially a pidgin language that ends up being spoken as a first language. Over time, it’s possible for a pidgin to become a creole. They combine two languages in a way that facilitates communication where it would otherwise not be possible. Pidgin languages are blended tongues that are born of necessity. “A language containing lexical and other features from two or more languages, characteristically with simplified grammar and a smaller vocabulary than the languages from which it is derived, used for communication between people not having a common language a lingua franca.” The Oxford English Dictionary definition of a pidgin is: So why are pidgin languages barely present in marketing and advertising content? We explore this topic below, but first, let’s take a closer look at what pidgin languages are and where they are spoken. Nigerian Pidgin English, for example, has an impressive 75 million speakers in Nigeria, Haitian Creole has 12 million speakers and Jamaican Creole has 3.2 million. Official estimates of the number of pidgin languages vary, but Ethnologue lists a total of 16 pidgin languages with speakers spread around the globe. Governments usually lump French Creoles together with French even if they are not really the same language.Pidgin languages-most simply defined as a blend of two languages-are used around the world. There is a language called haitian creole which is also a mixture of french and african languages spoken primarily in Haiti but is, I believe, not mutually intelligible with Louisianian Creole speakers.Ĭreole is its simplest meaning is a language formed from a mixture of other languages, historically European languages and African ones. This would be a opposed to les créoles de couleur (Creoles of color) who are the french or louisianian creole speaking descendants of africans brought to Louisiana. To make it more confusing, franco-louisianians who are the descendants of french-colonists from the french antilles or from france are sometimes known as Creoles so their way of speaking french could be called Creole French. There is a louisianian French Creole that using a lexicon that is primarily french but it's grammar is based on african languages. Or Tous tomberont dans mes bras or Tout tombera dans mes brasĪnd yeah creole is a very ambiguous word. I also like: On tombera tous dans les bras de «Name of God Here» or nous tomberons tous dans les bras de «GodName» I'm excited to be part of the growing community of r/French, and I also mod at r/KidsAreFuckingStupid and r/memesforparents. I'm fascinated by language, especially French and German, due to my strong Swiss and German heritage. I'm a married man with 3 small kids, and am a full time piano technician. It was my randomly generated name from Xbox, and I liked it so I still use it. U/YummyTerror8259 (he/him) - I'm Evan, aka YummyTerror8259. I hope to do more future travel in the Francophonie. I am a proud Francophile who has had the pleasure of living in France and Senegal. U/loveableRogue07 (he/him) - Bonjour-hi, everyone. I'm also a Computer Science student, and that's a pretty much exhaustive description of me I think? When I'm not doing those things, I'm either watching random shows/streamers, sleeping or staring at a wall. U/Deeb4905 (she/her) - I'm Deeb, a French hermit & language lover. I have a blog about linguistics, I love writing, linguistics, sociology, cats, and online communities moderation and management! Yeah, I'm a bit all over the place. I'm into learning languages, conlanging, mapmaking, and making music. U/Orikrin1998 (they/any) - I'm Eowyn, a 1998-born autistic creature from France. Your question might be in there.įor real-time interactions around French learning, join our Discord server.
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