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    Eastern Maroon Creole, or Nenge is a creole language of Suriname and French Guiana, spoken by the Ndyuka people. The speakers are one of six Maroon peoples...
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  • Atlantic creoles (the English creoles of both West Africa and the Americas). Iyaric ("Rastafarian") Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language Not strictly...
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  • (/ˈpætwɑː/; locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with West African, Taíno, Irish, Spanish, Hindustani...
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    Pickaninny (category Articles containing Eastern Maroon Creole-language text)
    variants become widely used in pidgin languages, meaning 'small'. This term is common in the creole languages of the Caribbean, especially those which...
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    English colonial residents and other Europeans. Through the Jamaican Maroons, some Creoles probably also have indigenous Amerindian Taíno ancestry. The mingling...
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    A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a...
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    Ndyuka people (category Articles containing Eastern Maroon Creole-language text)
    one of six Maroon peoples (formerly called "Bush Negroes", which also has pejorative tinges) in the Republic of Suriname and one of the Maroon peoples in...
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    peoples, eventually evolving into separate creole cultures such as the Garifuna and the Mascogos. Maroon, which can have a more general sense of being...
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  • (Jamaican Creole English) Limonese Creole Bocas del Toro Creole (Panamanian Creole English) Jamaican Maroon Creole Belizean Creole Miskito Coast Creole (Nicaragua...
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    identities. The development of creole languages is sometimes mistakenly attributed to the emergence of Creole ethnic identities; however, the two developments...
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    Aluku (redirect from Aluku language)
    their language. Richard Price estimated about 6,000 speakers in 2002. Many of its speakers are also bilingual in French. The Aluku language is a creole of...
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    Gullah Jamaican Maroon Creole Maroons Seasoning (slavery) Tobacco colonies Transatlantic migrations Berlin, Ira (April 1, 1996). "From Creole to African"...
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  • Jamaican Maroon Creole Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone Kromanti dance (religious) Maroon (people) Maroon Town, Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Creole people...
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    Paramaccan people (category Articles containing Eastern Maroon Creole-language text)
    The Paramaccan or Paramaka (French: Pamak) are a Maroon tribe living in the forested interior of Suriname, mainly in the Paramacca resort, and the western...
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    Papaichton (category Articles containing Eastern Maroon Creole-language text)
    [papajʃtɔ̃]; unofficial spelling Papaïchton with a trema; French Guianese Creole: Papaychton) is a commune in the overseas region and department of French...
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  • "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole) is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 519...
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  • Creole (ASC) is a dialect of Gullah spoken by Black Seminoles in scattered communities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Northern Mexico. Afro-Seminole Creole was...
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  • The Creoles of color are a historic ethnic group of Louisiana Creoles that developed in the former French and Spanish colonies of Louisiana (especially...
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  • spirits. The Jamaican Maroon Creole language is used during the Kromanti dance ceremony when addressing people possessed by old Maroon ancestors. Myal Obeah...
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    la Louisiane; Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French...
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    Administrative divisions of France for details): Amerindian languages in French Guiana French-based creole languages in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique...
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    creole dialect of English spoken by Gullah and Geechee people. Over time, its speakers have used this term to formally refer to their creole language...
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  • influenced the language's gradual decline, and it may well now be an endangered language. Samana English is similar to that of Caribbean English creole spoken...
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    The Guianas (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    colonial times. Africans are further divided into Creoles, who are located along the coastal regions, and Maroons, who are descendants of people who escaped...
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    Saint-Domingue (category Articles containing Haitian Creole-language text)
    areas were called marron (French) or mawon (Haitian Creole), meaning 'escaped slave'. The maroons formed close-knit communities that practised small-scale...
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  • maintain that the parallels between AAVE, West African languages, and English-based creole languages are existent but minor, with African-American Vernacular...
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    Saramaka (category Surinamese Maroons)
    central Suriname) speak variants of a creole language called Saramaccan. The Ndyuka, Paramaka, and Aluku, (in eastern Suriname), as well as the several hundred...
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  • of Sierra Leone Creole people is an incomplete list of notable individuals of Creole ethnicity and ancestry. The Sierra Leone Creole people, who are also...
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    Freetown (category Populated places established by Sierra Leone Creoles)
    the Krio language of the Sierra Leone Creole people is Freetown's primary language of communication and is by far the most widely spoken language in the...
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  • Moore Town, Jamaica (category Jamaican Maroon establishments)
    accessible by road from Port Antonio. The easternmost Maroon town, Moore Town is located in the eastern end of the parish. Formerly known as New Nanny Town...
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