Where Is Creolized Language?

The best-known creolized languages derive from French and are spoken in Louisiana, Haiti, the Lesser Antilles, Re union and Mauritius. English-based creole languages also exist: among them are the Gullah of the Sea Islands off South Carolina, the Taki-Taki of Dutch Guiana and the Negro English of the West Indies.

Where are Creolized languages spoken?

Creole languages most often emerged in colonies located near the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean or the Indian Ocean. Exceptions include Brazil, where no creole emerged, and Cape Verde and the Lesser Antilles, where creoles developed in slave depots rather than on plantations.

What is Creolized language?

: a language resulting from the acquisition by a subordinate group of the language of a dominant group, with phonological changes, simplification of grammar, and an admixture of the subordinate group's vocabulary, and serving as the mother tongue of its speakers, not solely for communication between people of different ...