Creole

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Creole may refer to:

[edit] People

• Creole peoples, a number of distinct ethnic groups in various countries; mix of culture
• Louisiana Creole people
• Creole class, also referred to by the Spanish loanword, Criollo people, 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

[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
• Chinese-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:

• Haitian Creole language, an official language of Haiti
• Louisiana Creole French, a language of Louisiana
• 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
• Tok Pisin, an official language of Papua New Guinea.

[edit] Other

• Louisiana Creole cuisine, a style of cooking originating in Louisiana (centered on the Greater New Orleans area) that blends French, Mediterranean, Spanish, African, and American influences.
• Creole Love Call, a composition by Duke Ellington
• "Creole" (song), a song by Beyoncé
• The Creole case, an international dispute occasioned by the successful slave revolt 1841 on the Creole, an American ship involved in the coastwise slave trade, and its subsequent hijacking to the Bahamas.
• Creole Records, a record label
• Creole Pig, a breed of pig from Haiti
• 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
• Creole earring, a type or style of earring distinguishable by its three quarter moon shape.

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