What is so special about Creoles?
A Creole is a grass-roots language: It is a language descended from a Pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people. Study of Creole languages around the world has shown that they display remarkable similarities in grammar, possibly reflecting the universals in all languages. Most words in Creoles, for example, are unvarying, and the grammar tends to be indicated by simple particles and word order. It should be understood that Creole languages are not baby-talk versions of major languages. Kreyòl in Haiti, Papiamento in Aruba, or Tok Pisin in Papua-New Guinea are full-fledged languages, capable of expressing anything that can be expressed in French, Spanish, or English.
A Creole is a grass-roots language: It is a language descended from a Pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people. Study of Creole languages around the world has shown that they display remarkable similarities in grammar, possibly reflecting the universals in all languages. Most words in Creoles, for example, are unvarying, and the grammar tends to be indicated by simple particles and word order. It should be understood that Creole languages are not baby-talk versions of major languages. Kreyòl in Haiti, Papiamento in Aruba, or Tok Pisin in Papua-New Guinea are full-fledged languages, capable of expressing anything that can be expressed in French, Spanish, or English.
