Languages
A creole language is a stable, full-fledged language that originated from a pidgin.
Creole languages subgroups may include:
- Arabic-based creole languages
- Dutch-based creole languages
- English-based creole languages
- French-based creole languages
- German-based creole languages
- Malay-based creole languages
- Ngbandi-based creole languages
- Portuguese-based creole languages
- Spanish-based creole languages
Specific creole languages include:
- Haitian Creole language, French-based, an official language of Haiti
- Mauritian Creole, French-based, spoken in Mauritius
- Louisiana Creole French, spoken in Louisiana
- Belizean Kriol language, spoken in Belize
- Cape Verdean Creole, spoken on the islands of Cape Verde
- Jamaican Creole, English based(broken english)unofficial language spoken in Jamaica
- Krio Dayak language, spoken by Krio Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Liberian Kreyol language, spoken in Liberia
- Seychellois Creole, French-based, spoken in the Seychelles
- Guinea-Bissau Creole, spoken in Guinea-Bissau
- Negerhollands, a Dutch-based creole, once spoken in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Bislama, an English-based creole, spoken in Vanuatu
- Llanito, a Spanish- and English-based creole, spoken in Gibraltar
- Bajan or Barbadian Creole, English-based, spoken in Barbados
- Antillean Creole or Créole Martiniquais, French-based, spoken in the Lesser Antilles
- Tok Pisin, an official language of Papua New Guinea
- Torres Strait Creole or Brokan, spoken in far north-east Australia, Torres Strait, and south-west Papua
- Patois, French based, spoken in Dominica and Saint Lucia
- Nagamese creole, based on Assamese, used in in Nagaland, India
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