Creole

(krē'ōl')

A person of European descent born in the West Indies or Spanish America.
1. A person descended from or culturally related to the original French settlers of the southern United States, especially Louisiana.
2. The French dialect spoken by these people.
A person descended from or culturally related to the Spanish and Portuguese settlers of the Gulf States.
often creole A person of mixed Black and European ancestry who speaks a creolized language, especially one based on French or Spanish.
A Black slave born in the Americas as opposed to one brought from Africa.
creole A creolized language.
Haitian Creole.

adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Creoles.
creole Cooked with a spicy sauce containing tomatoes, onions, and peppers: shrimp creole; creole cuisine.

[French créole, from Spanish criollo, person native to a locality, from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria, person raised in the house, especially a servant, from criar, to bring up, from Latin creāre, to beget.]

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: creole

Language

Any pidgin language that has become established as the native language of a speech community. A creole usually arises when speakers of one language become economically or politically dominant over speakers of another. A simplified or modified form of the dominant group's language (pidgin), used for communication between the two groups, may eventually become the native language of the less-powerful community. Examples include Gullah (derived from English), spoken in the Sea Islands of the southeastern U.S.; Haitian Creole (derived from French), spoken in Haiti; and Papiamentu (derived from Spanish and Portuguese), spoken in Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire.

Native America

In the 16th – 18th centuries, a person born in Spanish America of Spanish parents, as distinguished from one born in Spain but residing in America. Under Spanish colonial rule, Creoles suffered from discrimination; it was consequently Creoles who led the 19th-century revolutions against Spain and became the new ruling class. Today Creole has widely varying meanings. In Louisiana it can mean either French-speaking white descendants of early French and Spanish settlers, or people of mixed descent who speak a form of French and Spanish. In Latin America the term may denote a local-born person of pure Spanish extraction or a member of the urban Europeanized classes as opposed to rural Indians. In the West Indies it refers to all people, regardless of ancestry, who are part of the Caribbean culture. See also Creole language.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: creole

(crē'ōl) , Span. criollo (crēōl'yō) [probably from crío=child], term originally applied in West Indies to the native-born descendants of the Spanish conquerors. The term has since been applied to certain descendants in the West Indies and the American continents of French, Portuguese, and Spanish settlers. The creoles were distinguished from the natives, the blacks, and from people born in Europe. A sharp distinction of interest always lay between the creoles, whose chief devotion was to the colony, and the foreign-born officials, whose devotion was to the mother country. Never precise, the term acquired various meanings in different countries. It has biological and cultural connotations. The term was early adopted in the United States in Louisiana, where it is still used to distinguish the descendants of the original French settlers from the Cajuns, who are at least partially descended from the Acadian exiles. The word is also commonly applied to things native to the New World, such as creole cuisine and creole horses. The term is also used in places distant from the Americas, such as the island of Mauritius, but there it has lost much of its original meaning. The picturesque life of the Louisiana creoles has been ably depicted in the works of Lafcadio Hearn, George Washington Cable, and Grace King.

Bibliography

See F. J. Woods, Marginality and Identity (1972).

Wikipedia: Creole (disambiguation)

The word Creole is an adaptation of the Castillian-Spanish word criollo.

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
Haitian Creole, the official language of Haiti
"Creole" (song), a song by Beyoncé
Creole Records, a record label
Creole Pig, a breed of pig from Haiti
Sierra Leone Creole people of African American and Jamaican Maroon slave descent
Louisiana Creole French
Louisiana Creole cuisine
Zydeco or Louisiana Creole folk music
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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the first creole was established in 1867 in jamica

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Translations: Translations for: Creole

Dansk (Danish)
n. - kreol, kreolsk
adj. - kreolsk

Nederlands (Dutch)
Creool(s), mengtaal

Français (French)
n. - Créole
adj. - (Ling, Culin) créole

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kreole
adj. - kreolisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n., -
adj. - Κρεολός, -ή, μιγάδας

Italiano (Italian)
creolo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - crioulo (m), mulato (m), mestiço (m)
adj. - crioulo

Русский (Russian)
креол, креольский

Español (Spanish)
n. - criollo, mestizo
adj. - relativo a los criollos o mestizos

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kreol, kreolspråk, kreolfranska
adj. - kreolsk

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
克里奥尔人, 生于拉丁美洲的欧洲人及其后裔, 克里奥尔人的, 克里奥尔语的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 克里奧爾人, 生於拉丁美洲的歐洲人及其後裔
adj. - 克里奧爾人的, 克里奧爾語的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 크리올 사람, 크리올어
adj. - 크리올 사람의, 크리올어의, 외래종의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - クレオール, クレオール語, クレオール人
adj. - クレオールの, クレオール語の, クレオール風の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أوروبي من جزر الهند الغربيه (صفه) مولد من أبوين أحدهما أوروبي و الآخر ملون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אדם ממוצא אירופי תושב אמריקה הלטינית, אדם ממוצא צרפתי תושב לואיזיאנה, בן-תערובת לבן-שחור, קראולית (שפה), שפת תערובת (שפה אירופאית עם שפת הילידים)‬
adj. - ‮קשור לשפה קריאולית או לקריאולים, ממוצא קריאולי‬

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