… Chavacano is the only Spanish-based creole in Asia. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers. The design features are shared by pidgins (and creoles) worldwide.

What is Creoles in the Philippines?Ĭhavacano or Chabacano is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines.

… Now, Haitian Creole is spoken all throughout Haiti, by nearly all its residents. The Creole language you might find in Louisiana actually has its roots in Haiti where languages of African tribes, Caribbean natives, and French colonists all mixed together to form one unique language.

What race is a Creole person?Ĭreole, Spanish Criollo, French Crole, originally, any person of European (mostly French or Spanish) or African descent born in the West Indies or parts of French or Spanish America (and thus naturalized in those regions rather than in the parents’ home country). Typically, this comes about through assimilation, mixture, and merging of certain dialects, often by language standardization. Creolistics, an important branch of language contact theory and sociolinguistics, is one of the most socially engaged areas of language study today. Dialect levelling or leveling (in American English) is the process of an overall reduction in the variation or diversity of features between two or more dialects.

Pidgin and creole in sociolinguistics