While English is the official language, French, Creole, Bhojpuri and Urdu are widely spoken. |
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Most people on the islands speak a local dialect, or Creole, that combines elements of West African languages and French. |
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But St Lucia has many areas with French names, and the locals speak both English and Creole. |
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An English Creole arose on Saint Croix and is still spoken, although its use is generally limited to older islanders. |
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As he refined his draft, snippets re-entered his memory in dialects of French, Spanish, Creole and English. |
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The lack of local Creole literature has prompted many Martinicans to deny that Creole constitutes a language. |
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They insisted we speak Creole at home, join the local Haitian church and become active in our community to stay close to our Haitian roots. |
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Turning around, I discover two beautiful Creole women, drinking beer and laughing like crazy. |
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Derived mostly from French, Creole is particularly expressive and idiomatic, using a relatively simple grammatical structure. |
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We have our own architecture with the famous shotgun houses and Creole cottages and the mansions in the Garden District. |
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But the exclusion of Creole cuisine from the top league table wouldn't meet with local approval. |
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They spoke the Barbadian variety of Caribbean Creole English, such that Gullah is one more variation on that pattern. |
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Another language spoken by some Liberian Americans is Gullah, a Creole language with influences from the Gola ethnic group of Liberia. |
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One thing all types of okra have in common is their gumminess, which is actually a feature of some Creole and Cajun dishes. |
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Guyanese speak Creole dialects of English with varying ethnic lexical imprints. |
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A death in the Creole community is observed with an evening wake in the family's home. |
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Another first is the Bayou Cafe, a New Orleans-inspired Cajun and Creole eatery that features live jazz music accompaniment. |
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In this Creole kind of interactive transaction, not only do you get what you want, but you also meet half the island in the process. |
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New Orleans didn't just experience white flight, but Creole flight, black middle-class flight. |
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The Creole foods created by Africans have been adopted by all the other groups. |
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They strutted and swaggered in Creole style, played the hottest of jazz and slowed to a dead march as the tempo changed. |
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Jamaican Creole, for instance, has grammars and dictionaries as well as de facto norms, but there is no standard Jamaican Creole. |
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But Caribbean Creole English, again, exhibits no especial Wolof contribution. |
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At the ripe age of 20, Kate married Oscar Chopin, another wealthy Creole and successful cotton broker in Louisiana. |
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Even those already literate in English adjusted to the new Creole system within five minutes. |
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The old Macanese language was a typical Creole language, based on Portuguese but heavily influenced by various Chinese dialects and by Malay. |
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The language with the smallest vocabulary in the world is a Creole called Taki-Taki spoken in Suriname, South America. |
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They grew up together on and around Roman Street in the 7th Ward, the most intensely Creole part of town. |
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Mahore identity is based on Comorian, Malagasy, French, and Creole cultural traits. |
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The Cape Verdean Creole Institute was founded in Boston in 1996, with the goal of promoting the Cape Verdean language. |
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Put half the flour in a large bowl and season with Creole seasoning, salt and pepper. |
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If Samana English represents US Black English, BE had been already decreolized by then, or had never been a Creole in the first place. |
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In response, Creole women used their sense of style to devise elaborate tignons or head wraps, which emphasized their attractiveness. |
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Bhalla added that French, English, Hindi and Bhojpuri languages were also spoken apart from Creole by the 12 lakh people of this nation. |
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For whatever reason he had formed the erroneous impression that she did not understand the Creole language. |
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Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a Creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. |
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Along with simple shot gun houses and Creole cottages, century-old landmarks were hit hard. |
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Seychellois radio and television broadcasts offer programs in Creole, English, and French. |
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I found the map of the Southern Cone particularly striking, for it shows how limited Creole control was over vast extents of territory. |
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However, the vernacular which is spoken in most informal and family contexts is Creole. |
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Links run deep in Louisiana where people like their xylo music loud, their food spicy and where Creole and Cajun culture is still relevant. |
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It will also operate in four languages, English, French, Spanish and Haitian Creole. |
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In 1983 the constitution declared both Haitian Creole and French to be Haiti's national languages, with French serving as the official language. |
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The city's 1.1 million students speak more than 40 languages, including Polish, Bangladeshi, and Haitian Creole. |
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While Haitian Creole has a French word base, the two languages are distinct. |
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In addition to vocabulary in English, the teachers requested comparable terms in Haitian Creole and Spanish. |
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In between chants and speeches in Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole, the truck alternately blared hip-hop and various Latino jams. |
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Her linguistic abilities include Italian, French, Spanish, Haitian Creole and Vietnamese. |
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Jamaican rice and peas, Spanish paella and Creole jambalaya are foods for feasting. |
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A more popular Creole dish is roasted breadfruit with salted codfish, onions, and peppers cooked in oil. |
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Walcott's Creole drama is an assemblage of fragments, a collage that calls into question the ostensible purity of linguistic and racial roots. |
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His academic specialty is language change and language contact, with a concentration on pidgin and Creole languages. |
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The different groups speak their own languages, but the language spoken across ethnic lines is a form of pidgin English called Creole. |
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Each island has its own distinctive Creole in which its inhabitants take pride. |
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A typical Creole dish is stewed chicken, white rice, red beans, fried plantains, and homemade ginger beer. |
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Creole cooking uses hot peppers and spices but has been influenced by French cooking and imported foodstuffs. |
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Just to hear St. Lucians relax in their Creole is a real treat for first time visitors. |
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His father had prospered in Louisiana and married a young Creole before returning to his native region. |
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The original language community of the Creoles was composed of French and Louisiana Creole. |
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English is the official language, but English Creole is the language most people speak. |
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While the spoken language is Creole, the schools teach in English, and French remains the language of prestige. |
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Some Creole is spoken near the Haitian border and in the sugarcane villages, where many Haitian workers live. |
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They are afraid that those who speak Creole will learn French, and no longer feel inferior. |
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We are trying to develop a Jamaican sign language system for English and Jamaican Creole. |
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Although French is the official language, Creole is the language of everyday life. |
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But the role of the emergent rural and non-elite Creole population in transforming Belize's landscape throughout the nineteenth century is less clear. |
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The main course is a mix and match affair of different meats and seafoods, lamb and scallops among them to be paired with Creole, Cajun, curry, tomato or saffron seasonings. |
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The urban elite is primarily Creole, mostly of Spanish descent. |
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She married Oscar Chopin, a Creole, and went to live in New Orleans, Louisiana, spending her summers at Grand Isle, a fashionable resort off the south coast. |
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Low country cooking is very similar to Cajun or Creole cuisine. |
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The young men getting into trouble do not have Creole names. |
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Although the archetypal Belizean Creole of colonial commentary was male, women also were contributing to the development of rural Belizean Creole places. |
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The vernacular is a Creole, which is essentially fifteenth-century Portuguese with a simplified vocabulary and influences from Mandingo and several Senegambian languages. |
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Earlier, more divergent Creole forms have since become decreolized. |
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However, the name Creole Formation was selected because we seek to combine the best of music's acrolects, mesolects, and basilects to form a new, interesting mix of music. |
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Creole authors have pioneered a growing literature in the Krio language. |
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Rooms are plantation-style, a tad on the small side and nothing to write home about, although the restaurant, a fusion of French and Creole, is a definite winner. |
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Over three days and nights, popular Creole musical forms such as cadence-lypso, compass, zouk, soukous, and bouyon ring out alongside Creole-influenced reggae and soca. |
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When the federal pest management group put out a temporary don't eat-the-pigeons alert two years ago, they made sure it got out there in Haitian Creole and Italian. |
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An argument can be made that since so many Cajun pioneers copied the Creole accordionist that Cajun music is a descendant of Creole music. But that's another column. |
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There is also clear evidence that Plantation Creole decreolized more slowly in the plantation areas, where groups of slaves lived largely autonomous lives. |
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The two main languages of Haiti are Haitian Creole and French. |
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If you've attended a black spoken word performance in Montreal lately, you may have been treated to Parisian French, Haitian Creole, Jamaican patois and American hip hop. |
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Creole food uses tubers, such as cassava and sweet potatoes. |
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Like many African families, these Creole families are matrifocal, centering on the mother's lineage, with strong traditions of women working outside of the home. |
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And it's hard to resist her Creole corn spiked with tomato and red pepper, the kind of thing that would make any steam table in town a little more terrific. |
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It is my impression that prosodic focus without syntactic reorganization is possible at other levels of the Creole continuum not at the basilectal level. |
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But a Creole patois, a mixed-language dialect, is spoken in the country. |
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By emphasizing this resistance and the equivocal devices of Homer's archetypal wanderer, Walcott is delineating latent virtues in predecessors of his Creole protagonist. |
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Women are the emotional and economic center of the household in many Creole groups but are subordinated in traditional, patriarchal Hindostani circles. |
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You may have to put up with crowds, but these islands have a tradition of food not found elsewhere, with classical French fare and local Creole dishes. |
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Lawrence Carrington's St. Lucian Creole is a valuable handbook for anyone interested in the phonetic and morphological structure of Creole speech. |
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Lewallen said he'd like to put some Creole and Caribbean-influenced dishes on the menu but by no means is the restaurant theme going to go New Orleans or tropical. |
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This, at least, is our conclusion, because ever since that time, three hundred years ago, an English-based Creole has been the national language of Suriname. |
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These discourses invalidate indigenous and Creole land claims in the popular imagination and inform the cultural politics of identity among coastal peoples. |
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Originating in New Orleans, Creole cuisine is the result of influences from the many nationalities who settled in the city. |
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More than two-thirds of Cape Verdean population ancestry is Creole, descended from the intermarriages between the Portuguese settlers and black Africans. |
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The Overture is based on a poem describing the impressions of a Creole gaucho, a cowboy of sorts, who came to Buenos Aires and saw a production of Gounod's Faust. |
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For example, Standard Jamaican English is the acrolect where Jamaican Creole is spoken. |
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The Creole affair is important because, from the slaves' standpoint, the Creole affair was the most successful slave revolt in American history. |
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They developed a distinct rural culture there that was different from that of the French Creole colonists in the New Orleans area. |
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In the 20th century, there were still people of mixed race, particularly, who spoke Louisiana Creole French. |
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Several unique dialects of French, Creole, and English are spoken in Louisiana. |
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The second official language is the recently standardized Haitian Creole, which virtually the entire population of Haiti speaks. |
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Haitian Creole is closely related to Louisiana Creole and the creole from the Lesser Antilles. |
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Rice and gravy is a staple of Cajun and Creole cuisine in the southern US state of Louisiana. |
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The variety from Louisiana is known as Tasso ham and is often a staple in Cajun and Creole cooking. |
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Dev Virahsawmy's Zeneral Macbeff, first performed in 1982, adapted the story to the local Creole and to the Mauritian political situation. |
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Haitian Creole is dominant in the nation of Haiti, where French is also spoken. |
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Creole languages other than Haitian Creole are also spoken in parts of Latin America. |
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There is a native Miskito language, but large groups speak Miskito Coast Creole, Spanish, Rama and other languages. |
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The Creole English came about through frequent contact with the British who colonized the area. |
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The local Cape Verdean community speak a similar Portuguese creole, Cape Verdean Creole, and standard Portuguese. |
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Cape Verdean Creole is used colloquially and is the mother tongue of virtually all Cape Verdeans. |
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Creole has been gaining prestige since the nation's independence from Portugal. |
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The United States worried that the success of the Creole slaves in gaining freedom would encourage more slave revolts on merchant ships. |
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Haitian Creole is the second most spoken language in Cuba, and is spoken by Haitian immigrants and their descendants. |
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Haitian Creole, which has recently undergone a standardization, is spoken by virtually the entire population of Haiti. |
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Haitian Creole is related to the other French creoles, but most closely to the Antillean Creole and Louisiana Creole variants. |
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However, since the eighteenth century there has been a sustained effort to write in Haitian Creole. |
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The recognition of Creole as an official language has led to an expansion of novels, poems, and plays in Creole. |
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It created elected positions on the governing council, but the franchise was restricted mainly to the French and Creole classes. |
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The medium of instruction varies from school to school but is usually Creole, French and English. |
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The cuisine of Mauritius is a combination of Creole, French, Chinese and Indian, with many dishes unique to the island. |
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Ponce Creole is an architectural style created in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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It is also the most common order developed in Creole languages, suggesting that it may be somehow more initially 'obvious' to human psychology. |
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Creole languages typically use the unmarked verb for timeless habitual aspect, or for stative aspect, or for perfective aspect in the past. |
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Hawaiian Creole English is a creole language most of whose vocabulary, but not grammar, is drawn from English. |
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Creole languages, therefore, have a fully developed vocabulary and system of grammar. |
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If this hypothesis is untrue, the creole with the largest number of speakers is Haitian Creole, with almost ten million native speakers. |
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Atlantic Creole languages are based on European languages with elements from African and possibly Amerindian languages. |
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Indian Ocean Creole languages are based on European languages with elements from Malagasy and possibly other Asian languages. |
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In addition, some Australians speak creole languages derived from Australian English, such as Australian Kriol, Torres Strait Creole and Norfuk. |
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Haiti is included with this group based on historical association but Haitians speak both Creole and French. |
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Similarly, French and French Antillean Creole is spoken in Saint Lucia and the Commonwealth of Dominica alongside English. |
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The culture of Barbados is a blend of West African, Creole, Indian and British cultures present in Barbados. |
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Bajan cuisine is a mixture of African, Indian, Irish, Creole and British influences. |
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English is the official language of Belize, while Belizean Creole is an unofficial native language. |
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For all intents and purposes, Creole is an ethnic and linguistic denomination. |
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Belize Creole English or Kriol developed during the time of slavery, and historically was only spoken by former slaves. |
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It is therefore difficult to substantiate or differentiate the number of Creole speakers compared to English speakers. |
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Belizean Creole might best be described as the lingua franca of the nation. |
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People of French Creole ancestry form the largest demographic group in Hancock County on the Gulf Coast. |
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Many Miskito, Mayangna, and Ulwa people also speak Miskito Coast Creole, and a large majority also speak Spanish. |
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The majority speak Miskito Coast Creole as their first language and Spanish as their second. |
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The priest for the Creole ceremony was Father Marcel Saint Jean. |
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Cajun food developed separately from Creole and has a longer history. |
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Tuesday specials are shrimp Creole, pork marsala, Cherries Jubilee, marinated London broil and Taste of Caribbean. |
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Anything goes in the steamiest city in the American South, built on a history of voodoo, jazz and Cajun and Creole culture. |
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With more than 100 nationalities on the island, Dutch, English, Spanish, Creole, French, and Papiamento are heard in almost every exchange. |
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Like when your mouth said, yes, that you loved my Creole dirty rice, well, your eyes told me to never prepare that meal again. |
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Sirloin, shrimp Creole, paneed Mississippi rabbit, imperial lump crabcake dinner and veal grillades. |
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They will be served on Sunday as a Creole Mardi Gras jazz brunch featuring eggs Hussarde, eggs Sardou, pain perdu, grillades and grits, and both crawfish and okra omelets. |
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Signature dishes include Alligator Croquettes, Crystal and Steen's Sweet Heat, Mirliton Slaw and Pan Seared Red Fish, Sunset Sweet Potato and Creole Country Andouille Hash. |
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His Go-Onmyson is fancied for the Creole Serenaders Handicap Hurdle. |
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Ardoin has been playing Creole and Zydeco music virtually all of his life. |
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When a Creole language exists alongside its lexifier language, as is the case in Belize, a continuum forms between the Creole and the lexifier language. |
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Torres Strait English, as distinct from Torres Strait Creole, developed separately to, but has been significantly influenced by, General Australian English. |
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On the Torres Strait Islands, a distinctive dialect known as Torres Strait English, the furthest extent of which is Torres Strait Creole, is spoken. |
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It was a time of confrontation between the civil and ecclesiastic powers, as well as disputes between the Creole and Peninsular monks for control of the religious orders. |
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Lima cuisines include Creole food, Chifas, Cebicherias and Pollerias. |
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English, Trinidadian Creole, Tobagonian Creole, Trinidadian Hindustani, Spanish, Antillean French Creole, Chinese, Yoruba, Arabic, Portuguese, indigenous languages. |
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The pidgin forms of Portuguese spoken among slaves and their Sephardic owners were an influence in the development of Papiamento and the Creole languages of Suriname. |
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In 1975, Franketienne was the first to break with the French tradition in fiction with the publication of Dezafi, the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole. |
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The two official languages of Haiti are French and Haitian Creole. |
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A Creole is expected to be light-skinned, if not nearly Caucasian in appearance, have dark but nonkinky hair, medium height, and a look of self-confidence. |
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The official language of the islands is English and the population also speaks Turks and Caicos Islands Creole which is similar to Bahamian Creole. |
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In parts of the Caribbean, such as Haiti, French has official status, but most people speak creoles such as Haitian Creole as their native language. |
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One of the official languages of Mauritius is Mauritian Creole. |
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According to the 2000 United States Census, there are over 194,000 people in Louisiana who speak French at home, the most of any state if Creole French is excluded. |
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Louisiana Creole French is the term for one of the Creole languages. |
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Slaves and some free people of color also spoke Louisiana Creole French. |
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The most prominent varieties are Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole. |
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