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What happens when languages collide, fall in love, and raise a fully formed child.

means A stable, fully developed language that formed from the mixing of two or more languages — often born when a pidgin gets native speakers and grows a complete grammar — also used for cultures and people descended from colonial-era mixing in places like Louisiana or the Caribbean.

from From French créole, from Spanish/Portuguese criollo, rooted in Latin creare, 'to create, bring forth.' Originally it meant someone born and raised in a colony rather than the homeland — a European or African transplanted and 'created anew' in the New World. From there it stretched to describe the local-born cultures, cuisines, and eventually the blended languages that grew up alongside them.

not a dialect
creoles have their own full grammar, not broken parent language
one generation
can form in a single generation from a pidgin
haitian creole
official language, not slang french
linguistic proof
kids can turn chaotic pidgin input into rule bound language
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