History
Kwéyòl was born out of the slavery era, when different tribes from Africa were assigned to the same slavery plantations in the Caribbean countries; it was a time when their slavemasters were either French or British and their native tongues were somewhat useless as a method of communication since they themselves spoke different tribal lingoes. As a result, they were forced to develop a new form of communication that they could use to convey messages to each other by relying on what they heard from their colonial masters and their fellow tribes-men. Sporadically (at irregular intervals), they would use words they thought they heard their colonial masters speak and combine them with their African lexis (expressions) and sentence structure, thus, new words were wrought (fashioned) and given meaning. Gradually, this new method of communication amongst the slaves spread summarily across the regions of the Caribbean. This “Creole” language, which is French for indigenous, progressively grew into a more recognizable phraseology (language).
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