creole
English edit
Etymology edit
See Creole. Attested in English to refer to language from the 18th century.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹi.əʊl/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) enPR: krēʹōl, IPA(key): /ˈkɹioʊl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: (UK) -iːəʊl, (US) -ioʊl
Noun edit
creole (plural creoles)
- (linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
- 1818, The Methodist Magazine, page 317:
- There are three orders of people: those who were alive when the French possessed the island: they understand the good French; those who were born in the heat of the Revolution, and who have arrived at maturity without instruction, these speak only Creole […]
- 1966, Beryl Loftman Bailey, Jamaican Creole Syntax[1], page 144:
- From the point of view of syntactic analysis, I have shown how transformational theory may be applied to the syntax of a Creole language.
- Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”)
- a style of hoop earrings that comprise of a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape
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Translations edit
lect formed from two languages
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References edit
- ^ “Creole, n. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2013.
Further reading edit
- Haitian Creole – English Dictionary: from Webster’s Dictionary – the Rosetta Edition.
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