| Definition:
A language that arises from continuing contact between a European language and a non-European language, especially an African language.
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| Example:
Some West African Creoles are: Aku (Gambia), Krio (Sierra Leone), and Kamtok (Cameroon).
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| Etymology:
The word derives from the Portuguese crioulo, home-born slave. Ultimately, it derives from the Latin creare, to produce or create.
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Oxford English Dictionary: The term's first citation in this sense is from 1879: "I explique myself to her, and she tell me in Creole—[etc.]."
(L. Hearn Creole Sk. (1924) 54) |