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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