Creole

Creole may refer to:

People

• Creole peoples, a number of distinct ethnic groups in various countries; mix of culture
• Louisiana Creole people
• Criollo people or Creole class, a social caste in Spanish overseas colonies
• Belizean Kriol people
• Sierra Leone Creole people
• Krio Dayak people, an ethnic group in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
• Mauritian Creole people

Languages

Creole language, a stable, full-fledged language that originated from a pidgin or combination of other languages

• Arabic-based creole languages
• Dutch-based creole languages
• English-based creole languages
• French-based creole languages
• Singdarin, Chinese-based creole languages
• German-based creole languages
• Malay-based creole languages
• Ngbandi-based creole languages
• Portuguese-based creole languages
• Spanish-based creole languages

Some specific creole languages:

• Haitian Creole language, French-based, an official language of Haiti
• Mauritian Creole, French-based, spoken in Mauritius
• Louisiana Creole French, spoken in Louisiana
• Belizean Kriol language, spoken in Belize
• Cape Verdean Creole, spoken on the islands of Cape Verde
• Krio Dayak language, spoken by Krio Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
• Liberian Kreyol language, spoken in Liberia
• Seychellois Creole, French-based, spoken in the Seychelles
• Guinea-Bissau Creole, spoken in Guinea-Bissau
• Negerhollands, a Dutch-based creole, once spoken in the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Bislama, an English-based creole, spoken in Vanuatu
• Llanito, a Spanish- and English-based creole, spoken in Gibraltar
• Bajan or Barbadian Creole, English-based, spoken in Barbados
• Antillean Creole or Créole Martiniquais, French-based, spoken in the Lesser Antilles
• Tok Pisin, an official language of Papua New Guinea.
• Torres Strait Creole or Brokan, spoken in Far-North-East Australia, Torres Strait, and South-West Papua.

Other

• Louisiana Creole cuisine, a style of cooking of the New Orleans area, Louisiana that blends many influences.
• Creole Love Call, a composition by Duke Ellington
• "Creole" (song), a song by Beyoncé
• The Creole case, an international dispute about the Creole, an US slave-trade ship.
• Creole Records, a record label
• Creole Pig, a breed of pig from Haiti
• Zydeco or Louisiana Creole folk music
• CREOLE, a component model of the General Architecture for Text Engineering text processing system
• Créolité, a Martinican literary movement
• Creole (markup), a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis
• Creole earring, a type or style of earring distinguishable by its three quarter moon shape.
• Creole Creams, a type of biscuit/cookie available in Australian supermarkets.

See also

• Criollo (disambiguation)