Where do the creoles live?

Answer 1

Many people think Creole language is a single language or "broken English". It's actually a category of very real languages with native speakers, developed from a mixture of different languages at a sudden point in time. Creoles often form from pidgins, which are language mixtures that have no native speakers.

Creoles differ from pidgins in that, while a pidgin has a highly simplified linguistic structure that develops as a means of establishing communication between two or more disparate language groups, a creole language is more complex, used for day-to-day purposes in a community, and acquired by children as a native language.

The total number of creoles in the world are unknown, but are less than 100, and most are endangered.

Here is a list of 48 of the more common creole languages, along with the countries they're spoken in:

Arabic Based Creole Languages

1. Nubi (Sudan, Kenya and Uganda)
2. Juba Arabic (South Sudan)
3. Babalia Creole Arabic (23 villages of the Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture in southwestern Chad)
4. Maltese (Malta)

English Based Creole Languages

1. Bahamian Creole, The Bahamas
   
2. Bajan Creole or Barbadian Creole, Barbados
   
3. Belizean Creole, Belize
   
4. Bislama, Vanuatu
   
5. Gullah language, coastal region of North and South Carolina, Georgia and northeast Florida
   
6. Guyanese Creole, Guyana
   
7. Hawaiian Creole or Pidgin, a mixture of Native Hawaiian and American English
   
8. Krio, spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone
   
9. Liberian Kreyol language, Liberia
   
10. Nigerian Creole, (creole or pidgin), Nigeria
    
11. Pitkern, English dialect spoken on the Pitcairn Islands and Norfolk Islands
    
12. Manglish, Malaysia
    
13. Singlish, Singapore
    
14. Tok Pisin, an official language of Papua New Guinea
    
15. Torres Strait Creole or Brokan, northeastern Australia, Torres Strait, and southwest Papua
    
16. Trinidadian Creole, Trinidad
    
17. Sranan Tongo, (bridge language or lingua franca), Suriname
    
18. Saint Kitts Creole, (English Creole or dialect), St.Kitts
    
19. Greeklish, (dialect of Greek used by migrants to English speaking countries)
    

French-based Creole Languages

1. Antillean Creole French, French-based creole the French West Indies
   
2. Guianan Creole, French-based creole French Guiana
   
3. Haitian Creole, French-based, an official language of Haiti
   
4. Louisiana Creole French, Louisiana
   
5. Mauritian Creole, French-based, Mauritius
   
6. Seychellois Creole, French-based, the Seychelles
   
7. Reunionese French, Hindi, Malagasy based, in Reunion Island
   

Portuguese-based Creole Languages

1. Annobonese Creole, Portuguese-based creole Annobón, Equatorial Guinea
   
2. Cape Verdean Creole, spoken on the islands of Cape Verde
   
3. Forro Creole, São Tomé and Príncipe
   
4. Kristang language, Malaysia and Singapore
   
5. Macanese Patois, or Macau creole, Pátua, once Macau Portuguese community
   
6. Papiamento, the ABC islands in the southern Caribbean
   
7. Upper Guinea Creole, Guinea-Bissau
   
8. Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole, Sri Lanka
   
9. São Vicente e Benanvento Creole, São Vicente e Benanvento in Europe
   

Creole languages based on other languages

1. Andaman Creole Hindi, Hindustani-based creole language the Andaman islands.
   
2. Chavacano, Spanish-based creole language the Philippines.
   
3. Hezhou, Uyghur-based and relexified by Mandarin
   
4. Kanbun Kundoku, a method of annotating literary Chinese so that it can be read as Japanese.
   
5. Nagamese Creole, Assamese-based, used in Nagaland, India
   
6. Sango language, Ngbandi-based creole the Central African Republic
   
7. Unserdeutsch language, a German-based creole spoken primarily in Papua New Guinea
8. Hokaglish, Possibly Chinese-based creole spoken by Filipino-Chinese across the Philippines, although English and Tagalog may also be the base.
   

Answer 2

There are speakers of Creole languages in almost every country in the world.

Answer 3

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