Creole
Creole may refer to:
Languages
A creole language is a stable, full-fledged language that originated from a pidgin or combination of other languages.
Creole languages subgroups may include:
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
- 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 Saint Lucia
- Nagamese creole, based on Assamese, used in in Nagaland, India
People
Creole peoples – various distinct ethnic groups; mix of culture:
Other uses
- Louisiana Creole cuisine, a style of cooking of the New Orleans area, Louisiana that blends many influences.
- "Creole Love Call", a composition by Duke Ellington
- "Creole" (song), a song by Beyoncé
- The Creole case, an international dispute about the Creole, a US slave-trade ship.
- Creole Records, a record label
- Creole Pig, a breed of pig from Haiti
- Zydeco, Louisiana Creole folk music
- CREOLE, a component model of the General Architecture for Text Engineering text processing system
- Créolité, a Martinican literary movement
- Creole (markup), a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis
- Ponce Creole, an architectural style unique to Ponce, Puerto Rico, born in the late eighteenth century
- Creole sheep, a sheep breed
- Creole Queen, a 1,000 passenger sternwheel riverboat
See also