Talk:Creole

Removing external links

I've removed these from the dab page and am putting them here in case they may be helpful in the future:

~~Wiki Creole, a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis~~
Creole Common Database API, a database abstraction layer for PHP5

SlackerMom (talk) 16:39, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just created a Creole (markup) page, so the item (Wiki Creole) is back on the dab page. Tschach (talk) 21:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish vs French

The language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_French) as well as the word resemble French much more closely than Spanish, is the the statement, that the word originated from Spanish correct? TsukeHiki (talk) 17:52, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All sources I have seen claim that (as said in the article) the English word "Creole" comes from French créole which inturn comes from Spanish criollo and/or Portuguese crioulo. For the last two there is a somewhat plausible derivation from criar; I am not sure there would be a similar one in French. Also, AFAIK, the Spanish/Portuguese terms were widely used in Africa and America long before (>100 years?) Louisiana, Quebec and other French colonies were established. The Lousiana *language* of course derived from French and not from Spanish, but that says nothing abaout the name. (Consider that the English word "German" comes from Latin, for example.) All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 18:05, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually criollo, crioulo & créole all are rooted in Latin. The French word créole comes from the French word créer which means to create because creoles were created in the newly colonized lands as was their culture. The reason why the word in English resembles French more is because the Anglophones got it from the French. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.10.198.128 (talk) 20:46, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Creole?

creole seems 2 be a new language!--209.174.23.250 (talk) 16:22, 12 January 2010 (UTC) far out — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.114.40.194 (talk) 15:27, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the discription of the areas of creole population you should add the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Koach Harrington (talk) 20:05, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]