creole
Sign in to savestable natural languages that have developed from a pidgin
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A creole is a stable, fully-developed language that has grown out of a pidgin—a simplified form of communication that emerged when people who didn't share a common language needed to communicate with each other. Creoles matter because they're real, complete languages used by communities of native speakers, and they show how human language naturally evolves and adapts when different groups of people come into contact.
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An Antillean Creole traffic sign in Guadeloupe stating Lévé pié aw / Ni ti moun ka joué la!, literally translating as "Lift your foot [i.e. slow down]. Children are playing here!" in 2010.
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable form of contact language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period. While the concept is similar to that of a mixed or hybrid language, creoles are often characterized more narrowly by a tendency to systematize their inherited grammar (e.g., by eliminating irregularities). Like any language, creoles are characterized by a consistent system of grammar, possess large stable vocabularies, and are acquired by children as their native language. These three features distinguish a creole language from a pidgin. Creolistics, or creology, is the study of creole languages and, as such, is a subfield of linguistics. Someone who engages in this study is called a creolist.