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BigCity27

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The way that I understood it was that "creole" is the mixing of languages & the end result being a new language. I'm not sure how someone or a group can be of creole descent??
 

Hillbilly

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That all depends:

" Kreyol" or something like that is the language of the masses in Haiti.

Creole is the language of the folks around New Orleans

A creole is a person born in the Americas of foreign parents: French Creole, Spanish Creole and so forth. Somehow it has come to mean a child of mixed (usually Indian-Spanish, but also nowadays Black-Spanish or Portuguese) parentage.

Creoles are rarely accepted as " real" citizens of their parent's native lands...

And "criollos" are 'real' Dominicans! :D:D:D

HB :p