How do you use Creole in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like tongue or american, plus the exact meaning.
Creole meaning
- A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
- Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”).
- A style of hoop earrings with a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape.
Using Creole
- The main meaning on this page is: A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language. | Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”). | A style of hoop earrings with a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape.
- Useful related words include: natural language, tongue, american.
- In the example corpus, creole often appears in combinations such as: the creole, creole languages, creole and.
Context around Creole
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Creole
- In this selection, "creole" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, haitian, antiguan, louisiana, languages, language and cuisine stand out and add context to how "creole" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and haitian creole and and haitian creole are the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "creole" sits close to words such as abstraction, accomplice and ang, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with creole
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hundreds of authors will present in-person in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. (13 words)
Creole languages other than Haitian Creole are also spoken in parts of Latin America. (14 words)
Creole languages are also present in the Caribbean coast, Nicaragua Creole English has 30,000 speakers. (16 words)
However, the most common language other than Standard English is the island's own English-lexifier Creole language (not to be confused with Antillean Creole ('French Creole'), spoken in French islands such as Martinique and Guadeloupe ). (36 words)
Juanita and I worked for awhile in the middle-late 1980s in a Creole restaurant in the Old Coast Hotel, run by Carol Hall (of Carol Hall's Jams and Jellies) and Dick Haymes' daughter Joanne. (36 words)
Critics of the plan note that police in Kenya have been accused of killings and torture, and some wonder how an English-speaking force would interact with a population that speaks mostly Haitian Creole. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
However, the most common language other than Standard English is the island's own English-lexifier Creole language (not to be confused with Antillean Creole ('French Creole'), spoken in French islands such as Martinique and Guadeloupe ).
Creole genesis There are a variety of theories on the origin of creole languages, all of which attempt to explain the similarities among them.
Creole languages are also present in the Caribbean coast, Nicaragua Creole English has 30,000 speakers.
Creole languages other than Haitian Creole are also spoken in parts of Latin America.
From centuries of amalgamation of the local Creole, haute Creole, and New Orleans French cuisines, New Orleans food has developed.
Gradualists question the abnormal transmission of languages in a creole setting and argue that the processes which created today's creole languages are no different from universal patterns of language change.
In the years before Antigua and Barbuda's independence, Standard English was widely spoken in preference to Antiguan Creole, but afterwards Antiguans began treating Antiguan Creole as a respectable aspect of their culture.
Louisiana Creole cuisine Dishes typical of Louisiana Creole cuisine Southern Louisiana is geographically and politically part of the South, but its cuisine is probably best understood as having only mild Southern influences.
Part of this increase is probably caused by interchanging identities of Creole and Maroon, causing a decrease in the proportion of Creole and an increase in the proportion Maroon.
The majority of Belizeans regardless of ethnicity speak an English-based creole called Belizean Creole (also referred to as Kriol) for most informal, social and interethnic dialogue.
The precise number of creole languages is not known, particularly as many are poorly attested or documented, but the list of creole languages shows that creoles exist around the world.
When a Creole language exists alongside its lexifier language, as is the case in Belize, a continuum forms between the Creole and the lexifier language.
Critics of the plan note that police in Kenya have been accused of killings and torture, and some wonder how an English-speaking force would interact with a population that speaks mostly Haitian Creole.
Haitian Creole is the predominant language, but other languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English, are also spoken by many people.
Hundreds of authors will present in-person in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
In their disdain for the PPP government, Mulatto/Creole academics are becoming so emotionally charged that propaganda and fiction are replacing scholarship.
It will be at Hot & Spicy Creole Corner and this is the sole location that will be utilised to sell tickets.
Juanita and I worked for awhile in the middle-late 1980s in a Creole restaurant in the Old Coast Hotel, run by Carol Hall (of Carol Hall's Jams and Jellies) and Dick Haymes' daughter Joanne.
Lopes proudly speaks Creole, which is used as a second language by the Cabo Verdean diaspora.
Others have pointed out that Kenyan forces will be linguistically disadvantaged leading a mission in a country where French and Haitian Creole are the official languages.
Common combinations with creole
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the creole 17×
- creole languages 16×
- creole and 16×
- of creole 15×
- haitian creole 12×
- in creole 11×
- and creole 11×
- creole language 7×
- louisiana creole 6×
- creole french 6×