Creole

Creole may refer to:

People

• Creole peoples - various distinct ethnic groups; mix of culture
  • Louisiana Creole people
  • Belizean Kriol people
  • Sierra Leone Creole people
  • Krio Dayak people, an ethnic group in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • Mauritian Creole people

Languages

Creole language, a stable, full-fledged language that originated from a pidgin or combination of other languages. Creole languages subgroups may include:

• Arabic-based creole languages
• Dutch-based creole languages
• English-based creole languages
• French-based creole languages
• Singdarin, Chinese-based creole languages
• German-based creole languages
• Malay-based creole languages
• Ngbandi-based creole languages
• Portuguese-based creole languages
• Spanish-based creole languages

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

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

See also

• Criollo (disambiguation)