Creole
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The word Creole is an adaptation of the Castillian-Spanish word criollo.
Creole may refer to:
[edit] Peoples
- Creole peoples, a number of distinct ethnic groups in various countries; mix of culture
- Louisiana Creole people
- Creole elite, an inhabitant of the colonies established by Spain and Portugal
- Belizean Kriol people
- Sierra Leone Creole people
- Krio Dayak people, an ethnic group in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Sierra Leone Creole people
[edit] Languages
Creole language, a stable language that originated from a combination of other languages
- 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
Some specific creole languages:
- Louisiana Creole French, a language of Louisiana
- Haitian Creole, an official language of Haiti
- Belizean Kriol language, language spoken in Belize
- Cape Verdean Creole, a language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde
- Krio Dayak language, a language of the Krio Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Liberian Kreyol language, a language of Liberia
- Mauritian Creole, a French based creole of Mauritius
- Seychellois Creole, a French based creole of the Seychelles
- Guinea-Bissau Creole, a language of Guinea-Bissau
- Negerhollands, a Dutch based creole language once spoken in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Bislama, an English based creole of Vanuatu
- Llanito, a Spanish and English based language of Gibraltar
- Bajan (Barbadian Creole), an English based language of Barbados
- Antillean Creole (Créole Martiniquais), a French based creole of the Lesser Antilles
[edit] Other
- "Creole" (song), a song by Beyoncé
- Creole Records, a record label
- Creole Pig, a breed of pig from Haiti
- Louisiana Creole cuisine
- Zydeco or Louisiana Creole folk music
- CREOLE, a component model of the General Architecture for Text Engineering text processing system
- Créolité, a Martinican literary movement
- Criolla Grande, also known as "Criolla", an Argentine wine grape
- Creole (markup), a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis