creoles in English

noun
1
a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
The Creoles , the black people of the Caribbean region, are the descendants of colonial-era slaves, Jamaican merchants, and West Indian laborers.
2
a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage.
a Portuguese-based Creole

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2. Creoles in the Cane River Region

3. I'm a white Creole from New Orleans (white Creoles are also known as "French Creoles" or "Spanish Creoles") and I'm proud of my heritage in Louisiana

4. Creoles Culture in the Cane River National Heritage Area

5. Learn more: Creoles of Color Louisiana Creole People

6. Many light-skinned black Americans with French names are Creoles

7. In her research, Clachar has focused on Jamaican Creole, Guyanese Creole and Tobagonian Creole because they are very conservative Creoles, that is, Creoles with Basilects

8. Everyone, Creoles can be either whites or mulattoes in Louisiana

9. The Creoles are Christians, whether nominal or in practice, at over 98%

10. Boves's mestizos aimed to exterminate the creoles and to destroy their property.

11. The Creoles seized it, and, together, city and citizens flourished

12. The Creoles would have done anything to protect their land and their lives

13. The New Orleans Creoles themselves again advantageously altered the meaning of the word

14. Creoles of colour were highly educated, skilled craftsmen who gained professional and political power

15. Many multiracial Creoles of French descent also call themselves French Creole

16. The term “Creoles” is used in a number of different ways

17. Creole definition is - of or relating to Creoles or their language

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19. Creoles Creoles develop from pidgins when they begin to be used as first languages and therefore expand functionally and structurally into adequate means of communication for the group using them

20. Creoles who live near the coast of ANGOLA trace their origin to mestizo, Brazilian, and African ancestors

21. By 1830, more than 40 per cent of free Creoles of colour owned at least one slave

22. First languages arising in this way from artificially created pidgins are called Creoles

23. ‘Black Creoles and Garifunas, the descendants of Caribbean slaves, mix with Miskito, Rama, and Sumu Indians, who have lived on the land for hundreds of years.’ ‘It is the native tongue of the Creoles, blacks who came from Jamaica and other islands colonized by the British.’ ‘Free Creoles were of mixed African and European descent.’

24. Creoles in New Orleans have played an important part in the culture of the city

25. Creoles spoke French, Standard French in the case of those who were especially advantaged, but surely French in some form

26. Mary McMahon Date: February 16, 2021 Many Creoles descend from people who settled in New Orleans from France and Spain.

27. While some tribal people moved into Freetown, they, too, had limited social contact with the Creoles.

28. At the highest level, Creoles can merge with the standard variety of the language on which they were based.

29. Among other things, Creoles gave us jazz, zydeco, Mardi Gras, the paper bag test, the old New Orleans and creole …

30. Notable among Creoles is Haitian Creole, which grew primarily from the interactions between French colonists and enslaved Africans on Haiti’s plantations.

31. English Creoles are spoken by some of the people in Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and parts of Georgia and South Carolina.

32. Over time, Creoles develop expanded vocabularies and more complex grammatical features that were not present in the pidgins from which they evolved

33. Creoles of African descent exerted a strong influence on Cajun culture (and vice versa), affecting the Cajuns' music, foodways religious practices and more

34. Creoles living in the islands of CAPE VERDE are offspring of Europeans and enslaved Africans from the mainland

35. Some scholars consider the Oku ethnic group to be Creoles, although some scholars reject this premise given the differentiation in admixture, religion, and cultural practices between the Oku and Creoles, such as the practice of female genital mutilation among the Oku people.

36. Louisiana Creoles share cultural ties such as the traditional use of the French, Spanish, and Louisiana Creole languages and predominant practice of Catholicism.

37. Noun (relative to the acrolect and the Basilect) an intermediate dialect or variety of a particular language (used especially in the study of Creoles)

38. The Creoles contributed to Lagos' modernisation and their knowledge of Portuguese architecture can still be seen from the architecture on Lagos Island.

39. Creoles, like Cajuns, have contributed so much to New Orleans art, music and social life; without them, New Orleans wouldn't be the unique city it is today

40. Belizean Creoles, also known as Kriols, are Creole descendants of Black Africans, who were enslaved and brought to Belize by English and Scottish log cutters, known as the Baymen

41. Originally published in 1884, Creoles of Louisiana remains an excellent reference on the history of this complex and charismatic segment of the state's population.

42. The latter interest has justified discussing creoles' “life cycles” too, for instance whether or not they have “decreolized,” i.e., lost their basilectal features and become structurally closer to their Acrolects

43. Creoles are distinguished synchronically by, though being full languages, retaining signs of their pidgin ancestry, such as virtual absence of both inflection and tone, and highly transparent derivational processes

44. Creoles, in the American sense of the word, are the French who founded New Orleans and Louisiana, whether they be white, black or mixed in colour

45. The Burgher people of Sri Lanka and the Indo people of Indonesia as well as the Creoles of Suriname are mixed race people of Dutch descent.

46. Angolar jezik [sh] Angolar language [en] Angolara lingvo [eo] Criollo Angolar [es] multitree: Angolar Ngola São Tomé ruhlen (1987): Portuguese-based Creoles wals: Angolar

47. Louisiana Creoles (French: Créoles de la Louisiane, Spanish: Criollos de Luisiana) are persons descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana during the period of both French and Spanish rule

48. The traditional creolist position of Basilects having been the original forms of Caribbean creoles and approximations to English resulting from decreolization coming in only later builds upon the conception of large plantations.

49. Mesolect, Basilect Pidgins and Creoles Diglossia Conclusion A progressive shift from one form of speech to another across a territory, such that adjacent varieties are mutually intelligible, but those at the extremes are not

50. Along with migrants from all over Nigeria and other West African nations were the returnee ex-slaves known as Creoles, who came from Freetown, Sierra Leone, Brazil and the West Indies to Lagos.