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The word Creole is an adaptation of the Castillian-Spanish word criollo. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Criollo is a Spanish term (feminine criolla, plural criollos/criollas) which may refer to: The Criollos, a caste in the Spanish colonial caste system. ...
Creole may refer to:
Creole (people), a number of distinct ethnic groups in various countries; mix of culture
Creole elites inhabitants of the colonies established by Spain and Portugal in Iberian peninsula
Creole language, a stable language that originated from a combination of other languages
CREOLE, a component model of the General Architecture for Text Engineering text processing system
Wiki Creole, a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis
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A creole language, or just creole, is a well-defined and stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages, typically with many distinctive features that are not inherited from either parent.
Because of the generally low status of the Creole people in the eyes of European colonial powers, creole languages have generally been regarded as "degenerate," or at best as rudimentary "dialects" of one of their parent languages.
Another factor that may have contributed to the longtime neglect of creole languages is that they do not fit the "tree model" for the evolution of languages, which was adopted by linguists in the 19th century (possibly influenced by Darwinism) and is still the foundation of the comparative method.
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