Pidgins and creoles Pidgins and creoles Angolar, also Ngola (called lunga n'golá) is minority language of São Tomé and Príncipe, spoken in the southernmost towns of Sao Tomé island and sparsely along the coast. It is a creole language, based partially on Portuguese with a heavy substrate of a dialect of Umbundo, a Bantu language from inland Angola. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angolar language"
The Annobonese language, called by its speakers fá d'Ambô or fla d'Ambu, is spoken by 9,000 in the Ano Bom and Fernando Póo Islands off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, mostly by people of mixed African, Spanish, and Portuguese descent.. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annobonese language"
Antillean Creole is a French-lexified creole language spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles. It is known to its speakers primarily as Patwa ( patois). Antillean Creole is related to Haitian Creole, but has a number of distinctive features. The language was formerly more widely spoken in the Lesser Antilles, but it has mostly vanished from Tobago and the number of speakers is declining in Grenada. In Dominica, there are efforts to preserve pride in Creole. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antillean Creole"
An Arabic-based creole language, or simply Arabic creole is a creole language which was significantly influenced by the Arabic language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arabic-based creole languages"
Belizean Creole, also called Belizean Kriol, Kriol or Belizean, is one of the main Central American English creoles, closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole, Colón Creole, and San Andrés and Providencia Creole. ...more on Wikipedia about "Belizean Kriol language"
Berbice Creole Dutch is a highly endangered creole language spoken on the coast of Guyana. After the conquest of English Guyana by the Dutch in 1664, and the subsequentpeace treaty in which the English handed it over in exchange for New Amsterdam, the coastal areas got under Dutch cultural influence. However, this influence was rather slight, and did not reach much further than the town of Berbice. When the colony was reconquered by the British in Napoleaontic times, and split up in Dutch and British parts after the Vienna Congress, the Berbice slaves kept speaking it among themselves, until the language came in decay in the 20th century. As of 1993 there were some 4 or 5 elderly speakers of the language, although other sources report tens of speakers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Berbice Creole Dutch"
Bislama is a Melanesian creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu. It is the first language of many of the "Urban ni-Vanuatu" (those who live in Port Vila and Luganville), and the second language of the rest of the country's residents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bislama"
Chavacano (or Chabacano) is a blanket name for the Spanish-based creole languages spoken in the Philippines. The name stems from Chabacano, Spanish for "vulgar" or "unpleasant". ...more on Wikipedia about "Chavacano language"
Chinese English Pidgin is one of a variety of pidgin languages, artificial languages used for trade. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chinese English Pidgin"
Chinook Jargon was a trade language (or pidgin) of the Pacific Northwest, which spread quickly up the West Coast from Oregon, through Washington, British Columbia, and as far as Alaska. It is related to, but not the same as the indigenous language of the Chinook people, upon which much of its vocabulary is based. Most books written in English still use the term Chinook Jargon, but today the term Chinook Wawa is preferred by linguists working with the preservation of a creolized form of the language used in Grand Ronde, Oregon. Historical speakers did not use that name, however, but rather "the Wawa" or "Lelang" (from Fr. la langue, the tongue), although the name for the Jargon varied throughout the territory in which it was used, e.g. skokum hiyu in the Boston bar- Lytton area of the Fraser Canyon, or in many areas simply just "the old trade language". ...more on Wikipedia about "Chinook Jargon"
Cocoliche is an Italian-Spanish pidgin that was spoken in Argentina (especially in Greater Buenos Aires) during the peak years of Italian immigration (roughly 1880-1950). ...more on Wikipedia about "Cocoliche"
Contact Sign is a contact language that arises between a Deaf sign language and a spoken language (or the written or Manually Coded form of the spoken language). Contact languages also arise between different sign languages, although the term pidgin rather than 'Contact Sign' is ususally used to describe such phenomena. ...more on Wikipedia about "Contact Sign"
A creole language, or just creole, is a well-defined and stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages, typically with many distinctive features that are not inherited from either parent. All creole languages evolved from pidgins, usually those that have become the native language of some community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Creole language"
The Daman Indo-Portuguese language or Daman Portuguese creole, called by its speakers língua da casa ( Portuguese for "Home language") is spoken in Daman. It is a creole language based on Portuguese and local Indian languages. It is of the few Portuguese creoles still spoken in South Asia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daman Indo-Portuguese language"
A Dutch creole is a creole language which has been substantially influenced by the Dutch language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dutch-based creole languages"
An English-based creole language, or English creole for short, is a creole language that was significantly influenced by the English language ...more on Wikipedia about "English-based creole languages"
Fanagalo or Fanakalo is a pidgin based on the Zulu, English, and Afrikaans languages. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in South Africa, and to a smaller extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, particularly in the gold and diamond mining industries. The number of speakers was estimated as "several hundred thousand" in 1975. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fanagalo"
A French creole, more properly French-based creole language, is a creole language with substantial influence from the French language. ...more on Wikipedia about "French-based creole languages"
A German creole, more properly a German-based creole language, is a creole language with a significant influence from the German language. ...more on Wikipedia about "German-based creole languages"
Kriol (crioulo in Portuguese) is a language spoken by 60% of the population of Guinea-Bissau, where it is the lingua franca, and also in Senegal. It is a Portuguese-based creole language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guinea-Bissau Kriol language"
Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ayisyen) is a creole language based on the French language. It is spoken in Haiti by about 7.5 million people ( as of 1998), which is nearly the whole population. Via immigration, several hundred thousand speakers live in other countries, including Canada, the United States and France, as well as many Caribbean nations, especially the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Haitian Creole language" Be happy with www.shortopedia.com
Hiri Motu is an official language of Papua New Guinea. It is a pidgin of Motu; phonology and grammar differences mean that Hiri Motu speakers cannot understand Motu, though the languages are lexically very similar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hiri Motu language"
Jersey Dutch was a variant of the Dutch language spoken in and around Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey from the late 1600s until the early 20th century. It appears to have been a creole of Zeelandic and Flemish Dutch dialects with English and possibly some elements of Lenape. It was spoken by the decendents of Dutch settlers to New Jersey and by the mixed race people sometimes called the Jackson Whites. It was sometimes called Neger Duits - "Negro Dutch" 1 - when spoken by mixed race people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jersey Dutch"
Papiá Kristang ("Christian language") is a creole language. It is spoken by the Kristang, a community of people of mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry, chiefly in Malacca ( Malaysia) and Singapore. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kristang language"
:A popular U.S. magazine of academic journalism was titled Lingua Franca. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lingua franca" It's real www.shortopedia.com feeling! Pidgins_and_creoles
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