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- noun linguistics A
dialect formed from two languages which has developed from apidgin to become afirst language .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You might want to read up on the term creole, friend.
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The relationship between pidgin and creole is a fantastic analogy of the relationship between social software and the semantic web.
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Similarly in the chapter about the way that the Portuguese language unites (or separates) Lusofonia, I’d love to have links to videos from Sri Lanka, where a Portuguese creole is still spoken in a few villages.
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Again, I brought up the evolution of Indian English as a positive thing and I have never stated that a creole is a blight on the world…there seem to be a lot of blanks that you are creating and filling in on your own.
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Later the so-called mulatos picked up the term crillos aka creole and used the popular term as an identity.
Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus and Hector E. Sanchez: A Latino for the Supreme Court? It's Time 2009
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Michif was not a pidgin language, nor was it what linguists call a creole language a pidgin that becomes a native tongue, which also has simplified rules of grammar and syntax.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Michif was not a pidgin language, nor was it what linguists call a creole language a pidgin that becomes a native tongue, which also has simplified rules of grammar and syntax.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A creole is the combination of one or more languages into a new, stable language.
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The role of language contact in giving rise to similarities between languages that cut across family tree boundaries; this includes in particular work on perhaps the most extreme instances of language contact, namely creole and pidgin languages.
Limits on possible language changes Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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A variety of stories were circulated, some pretended to trace the crime to the Intendant's wife, whilst others alleged that the avenging mother of the creole was the assassin; some again urged that
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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Each language was a creole, which is a new language created by blending different languages.
Building inclusive NLP Beth Jensen 2023
sionnach commented on the word creole
of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both.
A language derived from a pidgin but more complex in grammar and vocabulary than the ancestral pidgin because it has become the native tongue of a community.
February 26, 2007