Creole languages are not a corruption of a specific language; rather it is the result of a complex relationship between two or more languages that first began as a pidgin and then became normalized through preceding generations. In Louisiana, kourivini (Louisiana Creole) shares similarities with both standard French and other French-based creole languages. Some people might say "Shyin-yé¨ meaning ¨dogs¨ and others would say ¨lê shyin¨ which is more similar to french ¨les chiens.¨ Further generations o speakers, plus the addition of other languages, continue to enrich the language.
Raymond Franklin Thank you, you actually know the difference as I've said many times a pidgin language is usually not a first language but a creole language usually is.
Raymond, I speak both Haitian Creole and French. Haitian Creole is a corruption of the 17th century French dialects of Normandy. Every phrase in Haitian Creole can be de-creolized back to French.
Can you please decreolize this sentence, ¨Yo poko alé epoutan yo ta renmen mwen plita,¨ into standard french. Would you contend that French is a corruption of Latin or would you recognize it as a separate language with a strong historical relationship to the Latin spoken in the province of Gaul?
17th century French is to dominant lexifer for the language, but the gramatical system, including syntax, is largely from west african languages, i.e. Fon.
Creole languages are actually very interesting in linguistics. First, a "pidgin" arises, which is a "dumbed down" or "broken" attempt of speaking a prestige language by adults without a formal education in the language in order to communicate with other people in a highly linguistically diverse community. They usually adapt and simplify the pronunciation and grammar to make it easier for them as native speakers of other languages, and they bring them closer to their own language, usually inserting words and features from their own language. The interesting thing comes from what happens in the next generation. The children of these adults grow up in an environment where they constantly hear different adults speak these "broken" pidgins and they *grammaticalize* it. That means that they turn the pidgin into a creole, they take the random changes and generalize them and apply consistent phonological and grammatical rules across the entirety of the language, making much more sophisticated grammatical constructions using mostly the "mispronounced" words from the prestigious languages with the grammar of the languages spoken natively by the settlers. These creoles can be very grammatically complex, with transitive markers, complex aspectual verbal systems and more, and it comes from children growing up speaking the pidgins and grammaticalizing it in a community. It's really fascinating.
Lol no mention on Haitian Creole? Its the most widely spoken Creole language in the world and the most recognized outside of its country of origin (US, Canada, and surprisingly Cuba).
My grandma left Louisiana for California in the 60s or 50s I think? I don’t speak the language (I’m trying to learn now tho) but I can cook all the food. Most of my family is still in Louisiana too.
Leiah Davis thanks for that. He cram too many islands together when we are all different. He said Haiti is sub Sahara African when we know our ancestors are from Guinea. And I know Jamaicans know where they hail from. .
Ian Simpson Films Online too much generalizing when we know that 90% is from gueina no more grouping do you know how many countries is sub Sahara almost all of Africa from the middle to the end. I or anyone do not need to be grouped up any longer. Both islands are proud people who know their heritage. Haiti and Jamaica
Yeah, he covered most creole language/groups but he forgot Chavacano of the Philippines. From what I've read, there are actually dialects in Davao and Cotabato City as well and an extinct dialect in the district of Ermita in Manila.
Still alive, well, and prospering. Zamboanga City and Basilan (Zamboangueño), Cavite City (Caviteño) and Ternate, Cavite (Ternateño). These all fall under the umbrella group, Chavacano.
Haitian creole is the most spoken creole language in the Caribic, not the World. West African Creole, an English related Creole, is spoken from Ambazonia, through Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia to Sierra Leon.
Ndi Ngere Since that’s such a large area are you sure that west African creole is can be considered as one language?Are all the dialects mutually intelligible.As a Haitian the creole spoken all over Haiti is the same,is that the case for the different regions that speak west African creole.
West African Creole is the most widely spoken Creole, and even if you want to say this consists of separate Creoles, Nigerian Pidgin still has 30 mil speakers, so it still tops Haitian Creole.
In Haiti the creole language was created because the slaves couldn’t understand the Slaves masters, so they created their own dialects which later became their own language
You forgot to mention the oldest still spoken Creole language: Capeverdian Creole (Kriol Kabverdian). A Portuguese based creole language spoken in Cape Verde and arguably the predecessor of Papiamentu (spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao)
Cape-verdean creole is unlikely to be the precursor of papiamento. The most likely is that creoles from ABC islands came from Brazil and developped there a portuguese based creole similar to cape-verde creole
It’s interesting how one defines themselves. I was riding in a vehicle with a friend from Trinidad and Tobago and she was speaking a language I didn’t understand so I asked her which language she was speaking. She said “English” and switch back to an English I could understand, I guess she was speaking “creole”.
She was speaking Trinidadian Creole, which is not mutually intelligible with English. So you would not understand her. Trinidads first language was French/ French Creole well into the 19th century until it was abolished. English then became the lingua franca. Then there are also Venezuelans descendants, West African descendants, Indian descendants. Trinidad Creole is a mixture of French Creole, Bhojpuri( India), some Tamil(India), West African and some Spanish as well as duh English. A Trinidadian don't really think about it because the national language is English. But when we speak it's Trinidadian Creole which is different from other English, as well as other English Creoles. Most times a Jamaican Creole speaker may not be understood by a Trinidadian vice veranda because of the differences in mixtures. Hopefully this is clear! Only a Trinidadian or a French Creole speaker knows ( a guep is a wasp), a Spanish speaker or Trinidadian will know ( ay caramba), a bhojpuri speaker or Trinidadian will know Bhaji and aloo is to eat...🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
No such thing as original creole.. Haitian creole is one of the french based creole. As you can see by definition creole is a patois or dialect of an orginal language and its people who can me a mix eg European and Africa culture origins or East Indian and amerindian as well.
How you took 6 minutes to get to even mentioning the most prominent Creole speaking nation (Haiti) was hilarious. Let me hook ya'll up: Haiti has as official languages both French and Haitian Kreyol. (Yes, which phonetically is literally "creole"). Kreyol is an amalgamation of mostly French, African, Spanish and Taino loan words. Interesting fact: I am Ayisien American, I have a good friend who is Mauritian and magically when she speaks Mauritian creole I can understand about 70% of what she's saying (due to the large French in common between Ayisien and Mauritian creole).
Creoles are Africans that were brought to the Americas who adopted Elements of European and Native American Cultures blending them into their own Cultures to survive which differentiated them from their Tribes in their original Homelands. Another Reason why English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese in the Americas is different from those spoken back in Europe because the American Varieties adopted Elements of Native American Cultures.
I speak Hawaiian Creole English (Pidgen). It's funny how much "shift" there's been in my life towards the standard American dialect. Most city kids hardly speak it at all, other than having a slight accent. Old folks in the countryside where I grew up spoke it so thickly outsiders didn't have a chance to make out what they were saying. It kind of feels like we're losing something special, but so it goes. The creole I'm most curious about is the Andaman Islands one, mainly because I'm really curious about there. It's not very visited by non-Indians despite having spectacular ecological and ethnological points of interest. I really wonder how the demographic melange of the various Indian ethnicities there interacts at the ground level.
Spike Gomes Good comment well first if it's has no black in it it's not creole period. And those who speak creole on adamand islands are black not Indian even though they carry alot of the same DNA there's are more ancient and are what turned into what we call Indian's today.but they are black or it wouldn't be called creole really that simple or every language would be creole as they evolute . If they say Hawaiian creole then you need to do some digging there some black in there somewhere I promise you.
@@topcatseriosblack8396 No, I'm saying a Creole language doesn't have anything to do with Black and White culture admixture as opposed to a Creole identity. Take for example you saying that some aspect of African was involved in making Hawaiian Creole, Creole languages don't necessarily have to be a European-African admixture. Hawaiian Creole and Tok Pisin for example are two Creoles that originated far from Africa. A Creole identity on the other hand always entails African and European cultures.
Capeverdean Creole is pretty close to Portuguese, but still... Cesaria Evora was probably the most famous singer from Cape Verde, and I once went to one of her concerts, in Lisbon. Between songs, she told some jokes, and while the Capeverdean audience laughed, I was all "what the fuck did she say?"
@Markheef Dessal I understand, but in Nigeria, Pidgin is rapidly Creolizing. It is actually now the first language for several million individuals in the country.
@Markheef Dessal A Pidgin becomes a Creole when it starts being used as a first language, forcing the first language speakers to build a more complex grammar than that of the original Pidgin language. It has nothing to do with the degree of European influence on the language.
TishaTheBrave. I'm very interested in the study of Seychelles and Mauritius; could you tell me if the Creole people of both countries have American Indian heritage. Or are they just black african and French. I'm confused because in the Americas creole means American Indian + African + European. Before you probably think I'm too uneducated I'm aware of the geographical location of Mauritius. I'm just asking because african slaves were traded between 3 continents, so it's not too unbelievable that people in Africa could have American Indian heritage, right?
@@bluephionex7119 Creole has nothing to do with native American its Frenchmen born in the Americas ( Lousiana and Carribeen) later those French men had babies with black women and Spanish women. By 1900 local people were biracial becoming black Creole.
@@jojosaylor8996 Wrong. Actually, Creole was first used to refer as a language; which is why if you go look at things like the true definition of creole, you can see how vulgar it actually is. It was used to refer to these "dirty slaves speaking a very morbid French." According to colonists. They simply adopted it later on because the language was becoming amazingly well known. Let's make a litle logic here, if your definition of creole is logic, then that means every single black in the Americas continents who were in the French colonies are Creoles! And lords know how many colonies French had in Americas
I always wanted to know where I'm "really" from by doing an ancestry test. I know for a fact I have Seychelles and Mauritius from both my grandparents. What interests me is beyond that. My great grandparents etc
Hello Masaman, another very good video. It is just an experience and I do not wish to make it a generalization. My mother is from the French West Indies and speak only two languages, French and Creole. Few years ago, she was in her sixties, she traveled to Mauritius and told us on returning that she had managed to communicate over there only speaking Creole. It seems quite surprising as Martinique and Mauritius are distant by few thousands kilometres.
I'm from st martin and family from Dominica so I to also speak creole and met people who are from Mauritius and other part of that region in Europe and was able to communicate with them and we understood each other.. What can I say grammer may be different but most of the the verbs and nous are derived from French
Hawaiʻi is home to one of the most recently developed creole languages: Pidgin (or Hawaiian Creole as it is more formally known). Its grammar is almost exclusively Hawaiian and English in origin, but contains vocabulary and grammatical features from other languages such as Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, and Tagalog. And when I call Pidgin one of the most recently developed creole languages, I mean that my grandfather’s generation were the first native speakers in the language’s history and participated in its creolization.
Hi Mason! Great video! In Colombia we have two Creole languages es: Palenquero, originated in a town called Mompox, and Raizal, spoken in the San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina islands.
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Masaman I appreciate your videos and I find them informative. I have seen how your videos can upset irrational, misinformed, defensive people who lash out in frustration because of the dissonance of their set beilfs. I am glad it has never discouraged you in putting these videos out, and that you ignore engaging in their hatred filled comments. In unity ✊
We speak creole in Mauritius, reunion, Seychelles, etc. Our creole in Mauritius is from the French colons whereas in Seychelles it’s from English All based on Slave trade where slaves were not considered as humans but as chattels ie considered like personal belongings of their masters like cars, houses etc.. This is very deep subject and have deprived human beings of self respect and stripped them of their roots....
The Créole spoken in Seychelles is definitely not based on English... It's a French-based Créole and is closely related to the the Réunion and Mauritius Créoles.
Wow Haitian Creole is literally the largest speaking Creole through the world with even native American words intertwined. But that was barely mentioned in the video. The word Haiti is a taino word.
1) it's not most spoken. It has most native speakers and 2) he doesn't even speak French and already spent significant time talking about the Caribbean. 3) he's just talking about creoles in general so it doesn't matter that much 4) The video is inaccurate in many other ways
If you haven't done so already, I'd suggest a video on the Cajun people (my ancestry) and their language. Cajuns are often mistaken as the same as other southerners, but are completely different, and, furthermore, independent of the New Orleans culture(s). Reach out if you have any questions. I love the channel. Thanks for the great content.
Chaz LaFont Wats the biggest differences between cauuns and the other Europeans in the south except coming from a different region or low lands in europe.ive herd some things but you sound like you can put a finger in it.
topcat seriosblack Great question. I'm not sure if there's one thing in particular. A couple of them would be (1) unique dialect of the French language, (2) unique cuisine. Most Cajuns were peasants exiled from elsewhere and segregated to an undesirable territory on the Louisiana coast. Other settlers described the landscape as harsh and unlivable because of the swamps and unpredictable shifting waterways and canals; but the Cajuns adapted and called it home. The combination of isolation/segregation and a new landscape inspired a unique way of life and culture for them. The new land and wildlife inspired their way of life and cuisine; and the isolation allowed them to retain their language and culture with little influence from the surrounding cultures (this slowly changed over time). Cajun French was still spoken only a few decades ago and there are still generations who speak the language. My parents didn't learn English until attending public school in the 1960s. I grew up hearing the language and I learned phrases and words as a child. There are other things worth noting, but that would be two of them.
Ian Simpson Films Online Yes, it's not exactly the same as French, but it's a unique version. That's all Cajuns spoke prior to the 1960s. Cajuns have no English ancestry. My father, 66, still speaks it and I have a neighbor who also speaks the language. I love hearing it, it's very nostalgic for me. There's a music project that puts Cajun accent to music. The vocals is a Cajun accent singing in English and there's some Cajun French spoken in the middle and at the end of the song. Put the captions on. th-cam.com/video/bb3_CHiv7Mc/w-d-xo.html
Chaz LaFont Good info I'm headed in the right direction there always been a comparison of Cajuns and Africans and slaves. What you expressed kinda makes the research I done pretty solid.from what I Know in Europe the Cajuns we're what we call country in the states. Other French people that were not of notable stature of the ruling class or other Culture or race. The things you discribed our all parts and factors.the style of cooking was way more out of my necessity. One pot meal's alot of ruus and gravy dishes no waist no parts of the animal left behind . One of the more simple and righteous of the European cultures . Ounce in the states the isolation put them closest in proximity to the people like them which would be slaves runaway slaves Indians and other Cajun people. I guess for Cajuns coming from Europe this would be a regular thing from the influx of people going through their territories or that was exiled from the largest cities to the lowlands it would kind of be the same process. I think once they were in America they had a much much larger food source and variety and it took them to a whole nother level in the culinary arts. And there understanding of discrimination in the United States let most Cajuns know where they were on the totem pole so they stay closest to the people that were treated like them such as slaves Creoles and Indians. Let me know if you think I'm on the right track?
For those that don’t know PAT-WAH is an English-based creole language with West African influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora. A majority of the non-English words in Patois come from the West African Akan language.
There is a divergence in Jamaican patois as you move away from the capital people from the west side of the island might as well be from another caribbean island.
Hey, i couldn't find a video specifically dedicated to Serbs and Serbian genes, imo it's an extremely interesting ethnic group because they've gone through a lot of mixing and "changes" throughout history (Original Balkan people, Slavs, Ancient Romans, Ottomans, Mongols, ...) Not many people seem to know about their history so it'd be great if you could make a video about them Keep up the good work! I absolutely love your videos 😍
Yep, Anglo Creole with admixture of Spanish (original colonizer), West African, English. No French though as we were never under French rule like st Lucia, Haiti etc
@5:56. Not true. Belizean Kriols are about 60% West & Central African, 32% Western European and 8% Indigenous. There is a lot variation. So it's safe to say they are more "mixed" than Jamaicans or Afro-Guyanese.
Interesting. I’m Belizean with both Kriol parents. This is actually quite close to my AncestryDNA estimate. About 62% west Africa, 14% euro, 15% south Asian, 7% Indigenous and a drop of Melanesia and Polynesia.
I can say this is true for Guyana and Trinidad. Since there is no large majority in either country and different groups of people make up significant amounts of the country. There is variation across Guyana even with accents. The English words have a more African and sometimes Indian or Amerindian way of saying them. Most of the foreign words are from the Indian, Afican and Amerindian languages. There are some French words inside our creole. As for the syntax of the Guyanese creole I do not know which language it is from because it definitely does not match the English syntax. However as I was researching, there is a lot of influence on the syntax from our East Indian demographic, African and our Amerindian, specifically Carib and Arawak. Also I could tell we have an older version of English or possibly another European language influencing the creole.
I'd like to see you cover the Spanish creole of Latin America in greater detail, I notice that depending on which part you're from, some words in one region mean something totally different in another. Also I never see people take indigenous languages into account when talking about Latin American Spanish, I'd imagine there would be some loan words or influence among countries with large mestizo and indigenous populations. Great video as always.
Francis Ivan Xavier7vs13 exactly, Latin America is also Creole, just the Spanish version, the Latin America where there's a mix of Africans, European and Native. Venezuela is a good example.
If you are referring to language, there are no Spanish creoles in the Americas except Palenquero spoken in Colombia and Papiamento (arguably a Portuguese creole language) spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Spanish speakers in different countries speak different dialects of Spanish, certainly not Creole languages.
@@tajaun3467 The Spanish speaking Caribbean Islands of Cuba DR and PR have many words borrowed from indigenous Arawakan language along with African blended with the Spanish language. Therefore it would be classified as Spanish Creole languages in the Americas.
@@Renzee-ct4wzthat’s not unique, even American English has borrowed words from other indigenous languages without it being classified as a creole. Spanish speakers from Latin America are mutually intelligible with Spanish speakers from Spain.
@@Simplyeverlasting87 it is unique because there are words in the Creole language borrowed from the Arawakan and African tongues that is not mainstream in Spain, so the language is unique in that regard. American English is not 100% the same as British English either but it’s not as blended as Spanish, French and Portuguese Creolized languages in the Caribbean and Latin America for it to be categorized as a Creole due to the lack of mixture from other languages but instead it is rather more based on dialect differences. Locals refer to it as modernized English, reformed, or Pigeon English if your looking for a word other than “Creole” to fit the description the language itself is not 100% British English, in that case it would be relevant. However, I do not care to speak about English history though, and just because Spanish and English are both European does not mean you can easily compare the two because both have vast different histories and did things differently when colonizing the Americas.
It call spanishish half spanish and english mix in something that Puerto Rican started doing in the ghetto but no way shape of form cerloe. We are Caribbean latinos
My ancestor My 6th grandma is Marie metoyer aka coin coin. Born in Natchitoches lousiana and played a big part in helping create melrose plantation which is the largest plantation in the United States EVER built by people of color.. The only slave plantation to literally free other creole from slavery. Her parents are full African decent from Ghana. Aka ewe/Togo. She was born into slavery owned by the founder of Natchitoches. Her spouse was a French man which they had 10 kids together. My ancestry goes back to the 1400s but I just recently found this put about this woman. I am of french/creole/african/Scottish and native decent. Originated from west Africa. Oh they also created the first town and church for creoles in Natchitoches. I must say it's an amazing feeling knowing I come from a line of people that truly made an impact in the world. I will walk around so proudly knowing my grandma made such an impact on my fellow creoles
St. Lucian's, Dominicans and Haitians speak french based Creole..also known as Patois pronounced "Pat-Wa" ...we understand each other fairly well. Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana people in the Caribbean understand our Creole (Patois) because our Creole is derived from French
@@Darrytheprince Grenada and Trinidad alongside with Jamaica were Anglo Caribbean countries who were crowned in Miss World and only Trinidad has Miss Universe in 1977 and 1998 respectively
I'm from Curaçao and I speak Papiamentu and I hear your language I can understand some words that sounds similar to ours. but I can't understand full sentences
Why many creole descendants were more representation in Beauty Pageants than Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Churches even France has many Creoles backgrounds become Miss France than Creoles cultures of Northeastern Brazil become Cardinals (most of Brazilian comes from German-Italian culture of Southern Brazil)
"Creoles" originaly meant the iberians(spanish and portugese) born in the americas while "penisulares" meant those born in Iberia ("Penisulares" from "penisula" meaning the iberian penisula). Then ment all europeans born in the americas and then means how Masaman use this term
@@NoneNone-uv5lh I'm also Puerto Rican, raised in the Northwest. At the time, I distinctly remember our culture being described as Creole. A heavily African influenced culture mixed with native and European. Puerto Rican food is also often described as Criollo.
Andrew T.K.T Pawlowski Not really, no, bc Creole isn’t just the evolution of a single language over time, but also the addition of other languages mixed in. It’s like a mutt language. The languages you mention are more just evolutions of Latin, based on geography (which is a big factor in all evolution). It would be interesting to make an argument for what degree the English language is kind of like a Creole language, though. At least, if we’re talking Middle English onward, bc that’s where French comes into the mix, and the language becomes bit less strongly Germanic (though it’s still certainly a Germanic language). I’m sure that there are other actual rules in the study of linguistics that more precisely delineates what specifically is creole, and what isn’t, but I’m not educated in that field at all. I do know the history of the evolution of English, though, and it seems to fit the basic outline given here, but I doubt it’s technically considered creole.
Moise Picard When you reply to a comment that contains multiple points, saying, “what?”, is not really meaningful or sufficient. I may as well reply, “what, what?”, in other words, what are you saying “what” for? A specific part of my comment? The whole thing? Do you have actual questions? I can’t reply to, “what?”, in a meaningful way. ✌🏼
Andrew T.K.T Pawlowski no because although these Languages have been influenced by Latin, the Latins prior to and post Roman Empire were influenced by the Etruscans, Gauls, and Spaniards in the Renaissance Period which is evident in modern Italian Cultures. Standard Italian is based off of Tuscan/Etruscan not Latin. So by your own definition Latin would be Creole as well.
Nikola Demitri England is a collection of Briton Tribes just as Ireland is a Collection of Tribes the only difference between Ireland and England is that German Influence was minimal in Ireland compared to England which was named after the Engle Clan. The Tribes of England without the Latin, German, and French Influences would sound similar to the Welsh and Scottish (referring to the Northern Tribes of England).
Louisiana Creole can be heard through the _Zydeco_ genre of music. Creole was the tongue that forth with Native Americans and French colonial speakers with later Native African admixture. Louisiana's nickname is both the Creole State and the Bayou State. Bayou is an Native American word from "bayuk". Creole means _native son._ It's amazing that Haiti is supposedly had all these West African supposedly taken for slavery from 1490's through 1793. As soon as they win their independence during the Haitian Revolution, all these supposedly African descendents decided to name their country not after an African word; but, after the AYITI native indigenous inhabitants who were supposedly all died by the early 1700s. How they remember the original tribe's name of that Island after all those years of slavery?
Louisiana is a little more complicated than that, Many people call themselves Cajun that are actually Creole. A new study and documentary will be coming soon on this .
I came here to hear about Sierra Leonean krio and I must say I am disappointed that we were only mentioned once despite our Krio being so distinct that it was considered an entirely different language on its own. We even have an entire people who identify themselves as an ethnic group on their own, the Krio people, with their own distinct traditions, cultures and ways. Not to mention that over 97% of the population speaks it, with over 63% recognising it as their first language. So this is just poor
Sean Degidon It’s much the same and many are similarly mixed in the past. My point was that southern English is itself a patois and the Lumbee are a distinct group who speak it. I’m sure the Lumbee have certain phrases of their own. I am cousin to them. Closest I lived to them was Hope Mills, NC. I have tons of cousins in Robeson county, some of whom wouldn’t claim to be Lumbee and some who would. A linguist could probably figure out the differences between southern English spoken in North Carolina and say, Louisiana. It is different, certainly the accent but also regional catch phrases and/ or pronunciation of similar words. Beaufort, NC and Beaufort, SC for instance are pronounced completely different in each place, not all that far apart.
Good video. Cool fact, I can understand Ayisien Kreyol a certain extent since my family is from Mauritius. Our form of créole has similar syntax, grammar and vocabulary at times.
In brief the Creole languages are a mixture of colonial European languages like English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch with African and Native American languages. The Creole people are the mixture of colonialist Europeans like the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese with African people and Native american people.
Ian Miles yeah but still, Masaman has to make a video about the Hui people. Everyone must know about the Hui people, including his viewers and subscribers.
The most interesting Creole group (totally biased/I'm American (white, Irish-American from the Northeast, to be exact)) is the Louisiana Creoles. An impressive history in self-definition amid the onslaught of cultural forces of fellow-Americans and French-speaking Cajuns alike
As I understand it, creole languages generally arise when new generations grow up sharing only pidgin languages in common. Pidgin languages by their nature are much too limited to be anyone's primary language, so the children who grow up with them, basically end up creating the rest of the language out of chewing gum and bailing twine. After a couple of generations, you end up with a more or less complete language that really has no close genetic relationship to any pre-existing language family (though there are plenty of sprachbund-type effects and of course most of the vocabulary is made up of loan words). Afrikaans on the other hand is clearly a direct genetic descendant of Dutch, albeit with substantial contact influence from various Niger-Congo (mostly Bantu) and Khoisan languages. They are now distinct languages, yes, but in much the same way that e.g. Polish and Ukrainian are distinct.
Is it the french base creole. I saw a video of people from Venezuela speak creole and and their accent sound like ours in the antilles (Guadeloupe martinique dominica St lucia) it was the same creole because I understood eveuything
Are Maghrebi Arabic dialects (Darija etc) or the Maltese language considered as creols of Arabic?! What exactly is the difference between Creoles and dialects?!
Creoles have grammars based on other language families and only borrows words. More specifically creolization is the process of making a language by having a limited language first (called pidgins by linguists) not used for everyday life and becomes a creole by gaining native speakers that use it as a native language for general speech. However, there is still disagreement among linguists based on what I could tell about whether or not this is always and the only process that forms what are called creole languages. Some argue it could be achieved by slower adoption of prestige language words (like the English under the normans) some say maybe there's such a thing as a spectrum of contact languages. Some argue for example that All west African based creoles of the same lexifier have the same origin and was transmitted by ship etc. But for now that process is what's considered creolization
Hi Masaman! I love your videos, you really bring quality content to this sometimes senseless platform. In the 30's and 40's the Italian immigrants spoke a sort of creole named "cocoliche", which was a strange mixture between italian and spanish.
In Haiti 🇭🇹 the term Creole stretches far beyond that Creole is culture. Mix of Africans, indigenous. Europeans, it is a aetnic group Africans mix with Europeans, indigenous, it is a religion indigenous/ Africans/ Europeans spirituality, ( voudou,Catholicism , indigenous animism blend in. It is a food , mix of Africans/ Europeans/indigenous... it is a music again mix with Africans/ Europeans/indigenous.. it is a dance 💃 Africans/Europeans/indigenous.... Creole is our way as us Haitians refer to ourselves...and also people of Louisiana and the Caribbean... The Word Creole means to create. But it strongly refers to the Africans diaspora with Europeans and indigenous mixture .. culturely =mixture of Africans/Europeans/indigenous. ...😞😞😞😞
@@WarrenFearchild well we culturize it because every unique about us Creole, complexion, fashion, music 🎵, dance , religion, culinary, beauty, pigs , cows , chickens .our style of home 🏠, it is a way of life for us. It is us we are it. 👍🏿😁😁😁🤷🏾
With regard to Afrikaans, there were about 600 Dutch settlers in the Cape when 200 French Hugenutes came. They were placed in farms inbetween the Dutch, as not to form a seperate group. Except for very few words, no African language were absorbed. With Malasian slaves the rithem got influenced. The sailor influence is very great. Coloureds speak a hydrid of Afrikaans, sometimes called goema. This is somethings of a mix between Afrikaans. Afrikaans is currently beign angligised a lot, and one seldom hear pure speakers anymore.
The Bislamic languages (Bislama, Tok Pisin, and Solomon Islands Pidgin) are a family of creoles. Although two have "pidgin" in their names (but "pisin" meaning "bird" is from "pigeon"), they have been spoken long enough to have native speakers, and have thus become creoles.
Créole = Louisiana , Haiti , St.martin.Martinique.Guadeloupe.St.Lucie.Guyana(french). Aruba.Bonaire.Curaçoa.Cape Vert .Reunion Island .Mauricia Island . Seychelle (might miss some places)Most of us listen to Zouk,Kompa,Kizomba ,Sega music... If you’re not from one of these countries you are not really creole , you just someone who fucked a language. All these creole colonies have influences from Portugual . France or Deutchland .. English or Spanish nations are not included
jayson larocque That's very interesting please explain more Louisiana is not a country I'm in America so there fifty other states not spoken for plus from what I learned creole is a mix of black and European period any other is an addition to the creole mix . Not disputing you just trying to get the full scope of your comment.
1) The Gullah language of coastal South Carolina and coastal Georgia can be considered a creole language; Gullah wasn't mentioned at all in this video. 2) Creole of any kind should not be confused with Criollos of colonial Latin America, who were the native-born whites over there; that wasn't pointed out in this video.
Can Afrikaans truly be considered a Creole language? I can sympathise with your arguments but I feel it could be seen as something separate due to its distinct history.
Mø Nälayé I've looked up the definition Look up the definition to etymology and why the word was created just like Latino you can't be Latino unless you have black in period everyone can speak what they want what you are makes the language and creole is a mix of european and black . It's nothing but the european word for mullatto. I appreciate you trying to point me in the right direction
I’m Cuban American, however growing up I identified as being of mixed race because I also have Afro Cuban, creole, and Chinese Cuban. I speak Spanish, English & French & was an t interpreter for many years...all I can say is it’s a cultural way of speaking, mannerisms how you were raised...it’s in your blood
When does a language go from being a creole language to just a language? Like those that are Latin languages such as Spanish and Italian or Germanic languages such as English and Flemish.
Creole languages are not a corruption of a specific language; rather it is the result of a complex relationship between two or more languages that first began as a pidgin and then became normalized through preceding generations. In Louisiana, kourivini (Louisiana Creole) shares similarities with both standard French and other French-based creole languages. Some people might say "Shyin-yé¨ meaning ¨dogs¨ and others would say ¨lê shyin¨ which is more similar to french ¨les chiens.¨ Further generations o speakers, plus the addition of other languages, continue to enrich the language.
Raymond Franklin Thank you, you actually know the difference as I've said many times a pidgin language is usually not a first language but a creole language usually is.
Raymond, I speak both Haitian Creole and French. Haitian Creole is a corruption of the 17th century French dialects of Normandy. Every phrase in Haitian Creole can be de-creolized back to French.
Can you please decreolize this sentence, ¨Yo poko alé epoutan yo ta renmen mwen plita,¨ into standard french. Would you contend that French is a corruption of Latin or would you recognize it as a separate language with a strong historical relationship to the Latin spoken in the province of Gaul?
17th century French is to dominant lexifer for the language, but the gramatical system, including syntax, is largely from west african languages, i.e. Fon.
Glad to be in accordance with you :-)
Creole languages are actually very interesting in linguistics.
First, a "pidgin" arises, which is a "dumbed down" or "broken" attempt of speaking a prestige language by adults without a formal education in the language in order to communicate with other people in a highly linguistically diverse community. They usually adapt and simplify the pronunciation and grammar to make it easier for them as native speakers of other languages, and they bring them closer to their own language, usually inserting words and features from their own language.
The interesting thing comes from what happens in the next generation. The children of these adults grow up in an environment where they constantly hear different adults speak these "broken" pidgins and they *grammaticalize* it. That means that they turn the pidgin into a creole, they take the random changes and generalize them and apply consistent phonological and grammatical rules across the entirety of the language, making much more sophisticated grammatical constructions using mostly the "mispronounced" words from the prestigious languages with the grammar of the languages spoken natively by the settlers.
These creoles can be very grammatically complex, with transitive markers, complex aspectual verbal systems and more, and it comes from children growing up speaking the pidgins and grammaticalizing it in a community.
It's really fascinating.
Lol no mention on Haitian Creole? Its the most widely spoken Creole language in the world and the most recognized outside of its country of origin (US, Canada, and surprisingly Cuba).
Ty because I speak it and read it.
More than Jamaican creole?
@@Subscribebytch yes
@@Subscribebytch By far. Like 5 times as many
@Zeidane Hall I don’t google every countries population. Sorry about that.
I'm A Louisiana Creole Here! Hello To All Of My Creole Cousins Out There! We Are One Family, One People, One Love! 🙏❤️🙏
I'm creole from east Africa well Seychelles. Hello to you
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Just learned I'm Louisiana Creole. Hello from Detroit, my lost cousin!
My grandma left Louisiana for California in the 60s or 50s I think? I don’t speak the language (I’m trying to learn now tho) but I can cook all the food. Most of my family is still in Louisiana too.
Yu a lizana or dedeaux ?
We don’t say Jamaican Creole. We refer to it as “Jamaican Patois”. Pronounced PAT-WAH
Leiah Davis this was mentioned but it is a creole.
Leiah Davis thanks for that. He cram too many islands together when we are all different. He said Haiti is sub Sahara African when we know our ancestors are from Guinea. And I know Jamaicans know where they hail from. .
Ednard Cadet guinea is sub Sahara Western Africa so he's quite correct. Jamaicans are from Mali, Senegal, Gambia
Ian Simpson Films Online too much generalizing when we know that 90% is from gueina no more grouping do you know how many countries is sub Sahara almost all of Africa from the middle to the end. I or anyone do not need to be grouped up any longer. Both islands are proud people who know their heritage. Haiti and Jamaica
arada lij thanks for that I'll look into it.
There are also creoles in the Philippines. I made videos in three Spanish Creoles: Ternateño, Caviteño, and Zamboangueño. 👍😊
Yeah, he covered most creole language/groups but he forgot Chavacano of the Philippines. From what I've read, there are actually dialects in Davao and Cotabato City as well and an extinct dialect in the district of Ermita in Manila.
Jc Dizon I have never heard those dialects (just the three that I filmed) but people have mentioned them. I wonder if they are still vibrant.
Still alive, well, and prospering. Zamboanga City and Basilan (Zamboangueño), Cavite City (Caviteño) and Ternate, Cavite (Ternateño). These all fall under the umbrella group, Chavacano.
peelmeone but Ternateño is pretty different from Zamboangueño. Here’s an example from my Ternateño video: th-cam.com/video/kKZ4P9piyUI/w-d-xo.html
Chavacano Creoles have a Nahautl dialect which is native to Mexico. I love the Philippines.
Dominica 🇩🇲 Creole! God Bless
ola cou-zen lol. jokes aside, always good to see a Dominican flag. Blessings fro your Lucian 🇱🇨 cousins.
@@StandUpGill we love our sister island St. Lucia was well! Much ❤️
Zot ka obliye lagwinad toujou 🇬🇩
Big up my West Indians! Love our English creole language!
West indians are also French-Creoles.
Jus so ya nuh, we call it Patois. (Pat-wah)
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As a West Indian with Guyanese and Grenadian roots i hope to see our english creoles recognized as an offical language
Eh it's not really a language on its own though.
In Cape Verde and Guine Bissau we speak " portuguese creole"
You completely forgot to mention Haitian Creole! That’s literally the largest creole language in the world 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Thank you. That’s why I click this video in the first place.
Haitian creole is the most spoken creole language in the Caribic, not the World.
West African Creole, an English related Creole, is spoken from Ambazonia, through Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia to Sierra Leon.
Ndi Ngere Since that’s such a large area are you sure that west African creole is can be considered as one language?Are all the dialects mutually intelligible.As a Haitian the creole spoken all over Haiti is the same,is that the case for the different regions that speak west African creole.
@@rouskeycarpel1436 No, there are slight differences from Country to Country, kind of like Antillean Creole (West Indies).
West African Creole is the most widely spoken Creole, and even if you want to say this consists of separate Creoles, Nigerian Pidgin still has 30 mil speakers, so it still tops Haitian Creole.
In Haiti the creole language was created because the slaves couldn’t understand the Slaves masters, so they created their own dialects which later became their own language
Did you watch the fucking video?
olivessamuel Yes, that's right
@Boi the video legit says this he explained exactly wtf creole is he then comments the exact same shit bitch
In Mauritius also
@@toohazey its tru tho so y are u getting fed up🤔
You forgot to mention the oldest still spoken Creole language: Capeverdian Creole (Kriol Kabverdian). A Portuguese based creole language spoken in Cape Verde and arguably the predecessor of Papiamentu (spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao)
He mentioned Cape verdean Creole around 3:40
Cape-verdean creole is unlikely to be the precursor of papiamento. The most likely is that creoles from ABC islands came from Brazil and developped there a portuguese based creole similar to cape-verde creole
It’s interesting how one defines themselves. I was riding in a vehicle with a friend from Trinidad and Tobago and she was speaking a language I didn’t understand so I asked her which language she was speaking. She said “English” and switch back to an English I could understand, I guess she was speaking “creole”.
A lot of Caribbeans don’t consider themselves “Creole” expect the ones with French influence. Like Haiti, Martinique, etc.
She was speaking Trinidadian Creole, which is not mutually intelligible with English. So you would not understand her. Trinidads first language was French/ French Creole well into the 19th century until it was abolished. English then became the lingua franca. Then there are also Venezuelans descendants, West African descendants, Indian descendants. Trinidad Creole is a mixture of French Creole, Bhojpuri( India), some Tamil(India), West African and some Spanish as well as duh English. A Trinidadian don't really think about it because the national language is English. But when we speak it's Trinidadian Creole which is different from other English, as well as other English Creoles. Most times a Jamaican Creole speaker may not be understood by a Trinidadian vice veranda because of the differences in mixtures. Hopefully this is clear! Only a Trinidadian or a French Creole speaker knows ( a guep is a wasp), a Spanish speaker or Trinidadian will know ( ay caramba), a bhojpuri speaker or Trinidadian will know Bhaji and aloo is to eat...🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Shweety Pumpkin aye Trini, Wah de vibes ! I’m impressed by your explanation 🤙🏾. Thank you
Shweety Pumpkin as a Trinidadian, I agree!
Trinidadian english is alot closer to real english. I can understand it perfectly, while i have trouble understanding jamaicans
Bel travay zanmim , great job my brother but we as. Haitian 🇭🇹 speak the original Creole all my Haitian say Sak pase 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇹
Quietstorm Andrax sak pase 🇭🇹🇭🇹
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Facts!!! 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹
🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹 N’ap boule. Half blood checking in
No such thing as original creole.. Haitian creole is one of the french based creole. As you can see by definition creole is a patois or dialect of an orginal language and its people who can me a mix eg European and Africa culture origins or East Indian and amerindian as well.
How you took 6 minutes to get to even mentioning the most prominent Creole speaking nation (Haiti) was hilarious.
Let me hook ya'll up:
Haiti has as official languages both French and Haitian Kreyol. (Yes, which phonetically is literally "creole").
Kreyol is an amalgamation of mostly French, African, Spanish and Taino loan words.
Interesting fact:
I am Ayisien American, I have a good friend who is Mauritian and magically when she speaks Mauritian creole I can understand about 70% of what she's saying (due to the large French in common between Ayisien and Mauritian creole).
David Saintloth Spot On!
He's anti-black. Check his tone and snide remarks when referencing them in his videos.
modap3000 you just made that shit up.... He's not anti black. He s clearly doing an educational video on Creole... Grow up.
alot of his fanbase definitely are
David Saintloth Relax, Creole languages are not just french based
Creoles are Africans that were brought to the Americas who adopted Elements of European and Native American Cultures blending them into their own Cultures to survive which differentiated them from their Tribes in their original Homelands. Another Reason why English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese in the Americas is different from those spoken back in Europe because the American Varieties adopted Elements of Native American Cultures.
Sierra Leonean here 🇸🇱
Not a creole, but it's our lingua franca and almost everybody's first language here, including mine.
I speak Hawaiian Creole English (Pidgen). It's funny how much "shift" there's been in my life towards the standard American dialect. Most city kids hardly speak it at all, other than having a slight accent. Old folks in the countryside where I grew up spoke it so thickly outsiders didn't have a chance to make out what they were saying.
It kind of feels like we're losing something special, but so it goes.
The creole I'm most curious about is the Andaman Islands one, mainly because I'm really curious about there. It's not very visited by non-Indians despite having spectacular ecological and ethnological points of interest. I really wonder how the demographic melange of the various Indian ethnicities there interacts at the ground level.
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Good comment well first if it's has no black in it it's not creole period. And those who speak creole on adamand islands are black not Indian even though they carry alot of the same DNA there's are more ancient and are what turned into what we call Indian's today.but they are black or it wouldn't be called creole really that simple or every language would be creole as they evolute . If they say Hawaiian creole then you need to do some digging there some black in there somewhere I promise you.
@@topcatseriosblack8396 This is not true. A Creole language has nothing to do with a Creole identity.
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That's what they tell you
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So languages have nothing to do with identity is what your saying
@@topcatseriosblack8396 No, I'm saying a Creole language doesn't have anything to do with Black and White culture admixture as opposed to a Creole identity. Take for example you saying that some aspect of African was involved in making Hawaiian Creole, Creole languages don't necessarily have to be a European-African admixture. Hawaiian Creole and Tok Pisin for example are two Creoles that originated far from Africa. A Creole identity on the other hand always entails African and European cultures.
St Lucian creole/ patwa ❤️🇱🇨
Capeverdean Creole is pretty close to Portuguese, but still... Cesaria Evora was probably the most famous singer from Cape Verde, and I once went to one of her concerts, in Lisbon. Between songs, she told some jokes, and while the Capeverdean audience laughed, I was all "what the fuck did she say?"
Funny because my Brazilian friends have a hard time to understand Cabo but not viceversa
Barely mentions the most widely spoken version of creole. Isn’t the word creole a French word to begin with?
Yes. There are also Spanish and Portuguese versions. They all come from the Latin *creare* (to create/produce)
yoitsgiook it means to create
The most widely used Creole is Nigerian Pidgin.
@Markheef Dessal I understand, but in Nigeria, Pidgin is rapidly Creolizing. It is actually now the first language for several million individuals in the country.
@Markheef Dessal A Pidgin becomes a Creole when it starts being used as a first language, forcing the first language speakers to build a more complex grammar than that of the original Pidgin language. It has nothing to do with the degree of European influence on the language.
I'm Mauritian Creole! Awesome vid!
TishaTheBrave. I'm very interested in the study of Seychelles and Mauritius; could you tell me if the Creole people of both countries have American Indian heritage. Or are they just black african and French. I'm confused because in the Americas creole means American Indian + African + European. Before you probably think I'm too uneducated I'm aware of the geographical location of Mauritius. I'm just asking because african slaves were traded between 3 continents, so it's not too unbelievable that people in Africa could have American Indian heritage, right?
Wrong, he didn't meant the American indians. There is no American Indian heritage here.
@@bluephionex7119 Creole has nothing to do with native American its Frenchmen born in the Americas ( Lousiana and Carribeen) later those French men had babies with black women and Spanish women. By 1900 local people were biracial becoming black Creole.
@@jojosaylor8996 Wrong. Actually, Creole was first used to refer as a language; which is why if you go look at things like the true definition of creole, you can see how vulgar it actually is. It was used to refer to these "dirty slaves speaking a very morbid French." According to colonists. They simply adopted it later on because the language was becoming amazingly well known. Let's make a litle logic here, if your definition of creole is logic, then that means every single black in the Americas continents who were in the French colonies are Creoles! And lords know how many colonies French had in Americas
I always wanted to know where I'm "really" from by doing an ancestry test. I know for a fact I have Seychelles and Mauritius from both my grandparents. What interests me is beyond that. My great grandparents etc
Hello Masaman, another very good video. It is just an experience and I do not wish to make it a generalization. My mother is from the French West Indies and speak only two languages, French and Creole. Few years ago, she was in her sixties, she traveled to Mauritius and told us on returning that she had managed to communicate over there only speaking Creole. It seems quite surprising as Martinique and Mauritius are distant by few thousands kilometres.
I'm from st martin and family from Dominica so I to also speak creole and met people who are from Mauritius and other part of that region in Europe and was able to communicate with them and we understood each other.. What can I say grammer may be different but most of the the verbs and nous are derived from French
That's beacause both of them are relative to Old French and Metropolitan French Patois. That's the same pattern for Canadians -> Moé, Mo, Mwen, Moi
Hawaiʻi is home to one of the most recently developed creole languages: Pidgin (or Hawaiian Creole as it is more formally known). Its grammar is almost exclusively Hawaiian and English in origin, but contains vocabulary and grammatical features from other languages such as Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, and Tagalog. And when I call Pidgin one of the most recently developed creole languages, I mean that my grandfather’s generation were the first native speakers in the language’s history and participated in its creolization.
Hi Mason! Great video! In Colombia we have two Creole languages es: Palenquero, originated in a town called Mompox, and Raizal, spoken in the San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina islands.
@LugoBey no estás equivocado los raizales hablan english creole
Martinique, Guadeloupe... and Reunion Island pleeease? :p
Guyane aussi
Dominica
Sainte Lucie.
Martinique!...oups! Matinik ;)
Mauritius
What about Hatian Creole
yeah it's in the video , but Hilariously not until 6 minutes in...it's the most prominent creole and spoken by the most people.
SuperRainBowNerd SuperSpicySpace he mention Haiti briefly and cram too many together they are all different.
+Ednard Cadet HAITI IS MOTHER LAND.PURE BLOOD!!! trube of levi pure israel in the bible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAITI HAVE THE UNIQUE HISTORY IN WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🇲🇶🇬🇫🇲🇶🇬🇫🇲🇶🇬🇫🇲🇶 My parents taught me Creole from Martinique and French Guiana (I’m French btw)
Masaman I appreciate your videos and I find them informative. I have seen how your videos can upset irrational, misinformed, defensive people who lash out in frustration because of the dissonance of their set beilfs. I am glad it has never discouraged you in putting these videos out, and that you ignore engaging in their hatred filled comments. In unity ✊
We speak creole in Mauritius, reunion, Seychelles, etc. Our creole in Mauritius is from the French colons whereas in Seychelles it’s from English
All based on Slave trade where slaves were not considered as humans but as chattels ie considered like personal belongings of their masters like cars, houses etc.. This is very deep subject and have deprived human beings of self respect and stripped them of their roots....
The Créole spoken in Seychelles is definitely not based on English... It's a French-based Créole and is closely related to the the Réunion and Mauritius Créoles.
Thank you I live in Seychelles and I was just waiting for someone to mention Seychelles😂👏👏👏👏
Haitian Creole is consist of Bantu, Arawaks, French and Latin, based language mix
You should visit Trinidad and Tobago! Multi-ethnic country! 😊
Yes, like mauritius island
The most multi ethnic nation in the Caribbean.
Wow Haitian Creole is literally the largest speaking Creole through the world with even native American words intertwined. But that was barely mentioned in the video. The word Haiti is a taino word.
Yea it was called ayti which i think mean tall mountains
1) it's not most spoken. It has most native speakers and 2) he doesn't even speak French and already spent significant time talking about the Caribbean. 3) he's just talking about creoles in general so it doesn't matter that much 4) The video is inaccurate in many other ways
As a St. Lucian I appreciated this very much. You did a lot of research for this.
If you haven't done so already, I'd suggest a video on the Cajun people (my ancestry) and their language. Cajuns are often mistaken as the same as other southerners, but are completely different, and, furthermore, independent of the New Orleans culture(s). Reach out if you have any questions. I love the channel. Thanks for the great content.
Chaz LaFont
Wats the biggest differences between cauuns and the other Europeans in the south except coming from a different region or low lands in europe.ive herd some things but you sound like you can put a finger in it.
Didn't Cajuns use to speak French?
topcat seriosblack Great question. I'm not sure if there's one thing in particular. A couple of them would be (1) unique dialect of the French language, (2) unique cuisine. Most Cajuns were peasants exiled from elsewhere and segregated to an undesirable territory on the Louisiana coast. Other settlers described the landscape as harsh and unlivable because of the swamps and unpredictable shifting waterways and canals; but the Cajuns adapted and called it home. The combination of isolation/segregation and a new landscape inspired a unique way of life and culture for them. The new land and wildlife inspired their way of life and cuisine; and the isolation allowed them to retain their language and culture with little influence from the surrounding cultures (this slowly changed over time). Cajun French was still spoken only a few decades ago and there are still generations who speak the language. My parents didn't learn English until attending public school in the 1960s. I grew up hearing the language and I learned phrases and words as a child. There are other things worth noting, but that would be two of them.
Ian Simpson Films Online Yes, it's not exactly the same as French, but it's a unique version. That's all Cajuns spoke prior to the 1960s. Cajuns have no English ancestry. My father, 66, still speaks it and I have a neighbor who also speaks the language. I love hearing it, it's very nostalgic for me. There's a music project that puts Cajun accent to music. The vocals is a Cajun accent singing in English and there's some Cajun French spoken in the middle and at the end of the song. Put the captions on.
th-cam.com/video/bb3_CHiv7Mc/w-d-xo.html
Chaz LaFont
Good info I'm headed in the right direction there always been a comparison of Cajuns and Africans and slaves. What you expressed kinda makes the research I done pretty solid.from what I Know in Europe the Cajuns we're what we call country in the states. Other French people that were not of notable stature of the ruling class or other Culture or race. The things you discribed our all parts and factors.the style of cooking was way more out of my necessity. One pot meal's alot of ruus and gravy dishes no waist no parts of the animal left behind . One of the more simple and righteous of the European cultures . Ounce in the states the isolation put them closest in proximity to the people like them which would be slaves runaway slaves Indians and other Cajun people. I guess for Cajuns coming from Europe this would be a regular thing from the influx of people going through their territories or that was exiled from the largest cities to the lowlands it would kind of be the same process. I think once they were in America they had a much much larger food source and variety and it took them to a whole nother level in the culinary arts. And there understanding of discrimination in the United States let most Cajuns know where they were on the totem pole so they stay closest to the people that were treated like them such as slaves Creoles and Indians. Let me know if you think I'm on the right track?
For those that don’t know
PAT-WAH is an English-based creole language with West African influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora. A majority of the non-English words in Patois come from the West African Akan language.
Am cape verdean, and we are the first that still alive creoles in the world.😊😊😊!
Hi my african sister I'm creole too
@@goonn337 wow nice. which country?
@@karinemartins3073well I'm american but most of my roots trace back to ethiopia area I think
@@goonn337 Ethiopia nice! Welcome
@@karinemartins3073 I'm lousiana creole
I’m French Creole. I was adopted by a Portuguese family, so I don’t know much about my heritage. Thank you.
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I worked at lake Charles power plant Louisiana. And i learned alot about Creole at the bars.
Trinidad use to speak patois but the British make sure and kill that. We still use certain words that derived from local patois.
Well atleast people will understand us more 😂
Some Trinidadians still speak the same creole as Martinique. But its dying.
Really nice summary dude, keep up the good work.
There is a divergence in Jamaican patois as you move away from the capital people from the west side of the island might as well be from another caribbean island.
TazeoTV how so?
creative uk like most island country ppl don’t talk a lick a proper English. Some will never respond in proper English
Hey, i couldn't find a video specifically dedicated to Serbs and Serbian genes, imo it's an extremely interesting ethnic group because they've gone through a lot of mixing and "changes" throughout history (Original Balkan people, Slavs, Ancient Romans, Ottomans, Mongols, ...) Not many people seem to know about their history so it'd be great if you could make a video about them
Keep up the good work! I absolutely love your videos 😍
Jamaican Patois count, right?
GenPone that’s basically what he is saying.
Yep, Anglo Creole with admixture of Spanish (original colonizer), West African, English. No French though as we were never under French rule like st Lucia, Haiti etc
Ian Simpson Films Online yes there is french influence. English itself is heavily influenced by french & the word "patois" is of french origin.
@@GreaterEthio There were french refugees after Haiti got conquered during the revolution.
No because Jamaican patois is not creolezied like Haitian creole.
@5:56. Not true. Belizean Kriols are about 60% West & Central African, 32% Western European and 8% Indigenous. There is a lot variation. So it's safe to say they are more "mixed" than Jamaicans or Afro-Guyanese.
Interesting. I’m Belizean with both Kriol parents. This is actually quite close to my AncestryDNA estimate. About 62% west Africa, 14% euro, 15% south Asian, 7% Indigenous and a drop of Melanesia and Polynesia.
I can say this is true for Guyana and Trinidad. Since there is no large majority in either country and different groups of people make up significant amounts of the country. There is variation across Guyana even with accents.
The English words have a more African and sometimes Indian or Amerindian way of saying them. Most of the foreign words are from the Indian, Afican and Amerindian languages. There are some French words inside our creole. As for the syntax of the Guyanese creole I do not know which language it is from because it definitely does not match the English syntax. However as I was researching, there is a lot of influence on the syntax from our East Indian demographic, African and our Amerindian, specifically Carib and Arawak.
Also I could tell we have an older version of English or possibly another European language influencing the creole.
I'd like to see you cover the Spanish creole of Latin America in greater detail, I notice that depending on which part you're from, some words in one region mean something totally different in another. Also I never see people take indigenous languages into account when talking about Latin American Spanish, I'd imagine there would be some loan words or influence among countries with large mestizo and indigenous populations. Great video as always.
Francis Ivan Xavier7vs13 exactly, Latin America is also Creole, just the Spanish version, the Latin America where there's a mix of Africans, European and Native. Venezuela is a good example.
If you are referring to language, there are no Spanish creoles in the Americas except Palenquero spoken in Colombia and Papiamento (arguably a Portuguese creole language) spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Spanish speakers in different countries speak different dialects of Spanish, certainly not Creole languages.
@@tajaun3467 The Spanish speaking Caribbean Islands of Cuba DR and PR have many words borrowed from indigenous Arawakan language along with African blended with the Spanish language. Therefore it would be classified as Spanish Creole languages in the Americas.
@@Renzee-ct4wzthat’s not unique, even American English has borrowed words from other indigenous languages without it being classified as a creole. Spanish speakers from Latin America are mutually intelligible with Spanish speakers from Spain.
@@Simplyeverlasting87 it is unique because there are words in the Creole language borrowed from the Arawakan and African tongues that is not mainstream in Spain, so the language is unique in that regard. American English is not 100% the same as British English either but it’s not as blended as Spanish, French and Portuguese Creolized languages in the Caribbean and Latin America for it to be categorized as a Creole due to the lack of mixture from other languages but instead it is rather more based on dialect differences. Locals refer to it as modernized English, reformed, or Pigeon English if your looking for a word other than “Creole” to fit the description the language itself is not 100% British English, in that case it would be relevant. However, I do not care to speak about English history though, and just because Spanish and English are both European does not mean you can easily compare the two because both have vast different histories and did things differently when colonizing the Americas.
the way newyoricans speak sounds like spanish creole
I feel like Dominican spanish is gonna become a creole soon its on its way there
It call spanishish half spanish and english mix in something that Puerto Rican started doing in the ghetto but no way shape of form cerloe. We are Caribbean latinos
Could you maybe do a video on Hawaiian Creole aka pidgin? I'm from there and i'd love to hear you discuss it in the future.
As a native of mauritius i have discovered a few words similar to the language spoken by Congolese people,which is fascinating to me
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My ancestor My 6th grandma is Marie metoyer aka coin coin. Born in Natchitoches lousiana and played a big part in helping create melrose plantation which is the largest plantation in the United States EVER built by people of color.. The only slave plantation to literally free other creole from slavery. Her parents are full African decent from Ghana. Aka ewe/Togo. She was born into slavery owned by the founder of Natchitoches. Her spouse was a French man which they had 10 kids together. My ancestry goes back to the 1400s but I just recently found this put about this woman. I am of french/creole/african/Scottish and native decent. Originated from west Africa. Oh they also created the first town and church for creoles in Natchitoches. I must say it's an amazing feeling knowing I come from a line of people that truly made an impact in the world. I will walk around so proudly knowing my grandma made such an impact on my fellow creoles
St. Lucian's, Dominicans and Haitians speak french based Creole..also known as Patois pronounced "Pat-Wa" ...we understand each other fairly well. Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana people in the Caribbean understand our Creole (Patois) because our Creole is derived from French
They always leave out Grenada and Trinidad like we don't have vivid memories of patwa being spoken loool
@@Darrytheprince Grenada and Trinidad alongside with Jamaica were Anglo Caribbean countries who were crowned in Miss World and only Trinidad has Miss Universe in 1977 and 1998 respectively
My dad is from Cape Verde and when he was in Curacao he could communicate with the people there
Sandjy Lima iam from Cape Verde and I can understand papiamento
I'm from Curaçao and I speak Papiamentu and I hear your language I can understand some words that sounds similar to ours. but I can't understand full sentences
Why many creole descendants were more representation in Beauty Pageants than Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Churches even France has many Creoles backgrounds become Miss France than Creoles cultures of Northeastern Brazil become Cardinals (most of Brazilian comes from German-Italian culture of Southern Brazil)
You forgot to mention. Many people in the Spanish speaking Caribbean considered themselves Creoles. Like Puerto Rico.
"Creoles" originaly meant the iberians(spanish and portugese) born in the americas while "penisulares" meant those born in Iberia ("Penisulares" from "penisula" meaning the iberian penisula). Then ment all europeans born in the americas and then means how Masaman use this term
Puerto Rico is not considered creoles or part of that, I'm Puerto Rican we consider our self tainos or latino not ceroles not offend
Puerto Rico is not considered creoles or part of that, I'm Puerto Rican we consider our self tainos or latino not ceroles not offend
@@NoneNone-uv5lh I'm also Puerto Rican, raised in the Northwest. At the time, I distinctly remember our culture being described as Creole. A heavily African influenced culture mixed with native and European. Puerto Rican food is also often described as Criollo.
Forgot to mention the geechie/Gullah creole off the coast of South Carolina/Georgia and Florida in America. Similar to the creole spoken in Barbados.
Tonya Emm Bajans don't speak creole, an tropical accent yes with some local words but no creole.
Kyle Kariba I'm not bajan lol I'm jamaican Born in England
*Jamaican-American here!!!* how are you??? 😊
Jill's Sandwiches Hey I'm Jamaican. Can I have some sandwiches?
A video about Arabic creolezation or less studied languages creole would be great. Great video!
Louisiana Creole here!
So would this mean Italian, french, and Spanish are all Creole languages based off of Latin?
Andrew T.K.T Pawlowski Not really, no, bc Creole isn’t just the evolution of a single language over time, but also the addition of other languages mixed in. It’s like a mutt language. The languages you mention are more just evolutions of Latin, based on geography (which is a big factor in all evolution). It would be interesting to make an argument for what degree the English language is kind of like a Creole language, though. At least, if we’re talking Middle English onward, bc that’s where French comes into the mix, and the language becomes bit less strongly Germanic (though it’s still certainly a Germanic language). I’m sure that there are other actual rules in the study of linguistics that more precisely delineates what specifically is creole, and what isn’t, but I’m not educated in that field at all. I do know the history of the evolution of English, though, and it seems to fit the basic outline given here, but I doubt it’s technically considered creole.
Nikola Demitri What?
Moise Picard When you reply to a comment that contains multiple points, saying, “what?”, is not really meaningful or sufficient. I may as well reply, “what, what?”, in other words, what are you saying “what” for? A specific part of my comment? The whole thing? Do you have actual questions? I can’t reply to, “what?”, in a meaningful way. ✌🏼
Andrew T.K.T Pawlowski no because although these Languages have been influenced by Latin, the Latins prior to and post Roman Empire were influenced by the Etruscans, Gauls, and Spaniards in the Renaissance Period which is evident in modern Italian Cultures. Standard Italian is based off of Tuscan/Etruscan not Latin. So by your own definition Latin would be Creole as well.
Nikola Demitri England is a collection of Briton Tribes just as Ireland is a Collection of Tribes the only difference between Ireland and England is that German Influence was minimal in Ireland compared to England which was named after the Engle Clan. The Tribes of England without the Latin, German, and French Influences would sound similar to the Welsh and Scottish (referring to the Northern Tribes of England).
Creoles, Cajuns, Melattos
French culture and languages go so deep, lol.
Louisiana Creole can be heard through the _Zydeco_ genre of music. Creole was the tongue that forth with Native Americans and French colonial speakers with later Native African admixture. Louisiana's nickname is both the Creole State and the Bayou State. Bayou is an Native American word from "bayuk". Creole means _native son._
It's amazing that Haiti is supposedly had all these West African supposedly taken for slavery from 1490's through 1793. As soon as they win their independence during the Haitian Revolution, all these supposedly African descendents decided to name their country not after an African word; but, after the AYITI native indigenous inhabitants who were supposedly all died by the early 1700s. How they remember the original tribe's name of that Island after all those years of slavery?
I find Jamaican Creole sounds a lot like it has Scottish and Irish pronunciations.
Louisiana is a little more complicated than that, Many people call themselves Cajun that are actually Creole. A new study and documentary will be coming soon on this .
Video about the different groups of people in Russia.
@@mamuwaldevoudoupractitione3518 Wtf is this comment?
I really enjoy your content. Keep up the great work!
I came here to hear about Sierra Leonean krio and I must say I am disappointed that we were only mentioned once despite our Krio being so distinct that it was considered an entirely different language on its own. We even have an entire people who identify themselves as an ethnic group on their own, the Krio people, with their own distinct traditions, cultures and ways.
Not to mention that over 97% of the population speaks it, with over 63% recognising it as their first language.
So this is just poor
Don’t forget the Lumbee in North Carolina when mentioning Creole in the southern US.
I don't think Lumbees have their own dialect of English, otherwise yes.
Sean Degidon I would argue that southern English is it’s own distinct dialect and the Lumbee do have their own brand of it.
Creole is just the caribbean and louisiana (more historically) within the whole of the Americas.
Mau, how is the Lumbee dialect different from others who live in the Cape Fear Valley?
Sean Degidon It’s much the same and many are similarly mixed in the past. My point was that southern English is itself a patois and the Lumbee are a distinct group who speak it. I’m sure the Lumbee have certain phrases of their own. I am cousin to them. Closest I lived to them was Hope Mills, NC. I have tons of cousins in Robeson county, some of whom wouldn’t claim to be Lumbee and some who would. A linguist could probably figure out the differences between southern English spoken in North Carolina and say, Louisiana. It is different, certainly the accent but also regional catch phrases and/ or pronunciation of similar words. Beaufort, NC and Beaufort, SC for instance are pronounced completely different in each place, not all that far apart.
Good video. Cool fact, I can understand Ayisien Kreyol a certain extent since my family is from Mauritius. Our form of créole has similar syntax, grammar and vocabulary at times.
In brief the Creole languages are a mixture of colonial European languages like English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch with African and Native American languages. The Creole people are the mixture of colonialist Europeans like the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese with African people and Native american people.
Mena, Most creoles are not mixtures of different languages but derivation from one language.
Masaman, can you please make a video on the Hui people. This is my second petition.
Ian miles, true lol. I am literally going to make a video about East Asians soon
Ian Miles yeah but still, Masaman has to make a video about the Hui people. Everyone must know about the Hui people, including his viewers and subscribers.
He has point though. The difference between Han and hui is purely religious, not ethnic.
The most interesting Creole group (totally biased/I'm American (white, Irish-American from the Northeast, to be exact)) is the Louisiana Creoles. An impressive history in self-definition amid the onslaught of cultural forces of fellow-Americans and French-speaking Cajuns alike
As I understand it, creole languages generally arise when new generations grow up sharing only pidgin languages in common. Pidgin languages by their nature are much too limited to be anyone's primary language, so the children who grow up with them, basically end up creating the rest of the language out of chewing gum and bailing twine. After a couple of generations, you end up with a more or less complete language that really has no close genetic relationship to any pre-existing language family (though there are plenty of sprachbund-type effects and of course most of the vocabulary is made up of loan words).
Afrikaans on the other hand is clearly a direct genetic descendant of Dutch, albeit with substantial contact influence from various Niger-Congo (mostly Bantu) and Khoisan languages. They are now distinct languages, yes, but in much the same way that e.g. Polish and Ukrainian are distinct.
There are also creoles in Venezuela, in and around the town of El Callao, in the State of Bolivar. Excellent video, man!.
Is it the french base creole. I saw a video of people from Venezuela speak creole and and their accent sound like ours in the antilles (Guadeloupe martinique dominica St lucia) it was the same creole because I understood eveuything
He pronounced that Mauritian Creole so well :)
This is so dope , that you expanded on the language
Are Maghrebi Arabic dialects (Darija etc) or the Maltese language considered as creols of Arabic?!
What exactly is the difference between Creoles and dialects?!
Creoles have grammars based on other language families and only borrows words.
More specifically creolization is the process of making a language by having a limited language first (called pidgins by linguists) not used for everyday life and becomes a creole by gaining native speakers that use it as a native language for general speech. However, there is still disagreement among linguists based on what I could tell about whether or not this is always and the only process that forms what are called creole languages.
Some argue it could be achieved by slower adoption of prestige language words (like the English under the normans) some say maybe there's such a thing as a spectrum of contact languages. Some argue for example that All west African based creoles of the same lexifier have the same origin and was transmitted by ship etc. But for now that process is what's considered creolization
Hi Masaman! I love your videos, you really bring quality content to this sometimes senseless platform. In the 30's and 40's the Italian immigrants spoke a sort of creole named "cocoliche", which was a strange mixture between italian and spanish.
In Haiti 🇭🇹 the term Creole stretches far beyond that Creole is culture. Mix of Africans, indigenous. Europeans, it is a aetnic group Africans mix with Europeans, indigenous, it is a religion indigenous/ Africans/ Europeans spirituality, ( voudou,Catholicism , indigenous animism blend in. It is a food , mix of Africans/ Europeans/indigenous... it is a music again mix with Africans/ Europeans/indigenous.. it is a dance 💃 Africans/Europeans/indigenous.... Creole is our way as us Haitians refer to ourselves...and also people of Louisiana and the Caribbean... The Word Creole means to create. But it strongly refers to the Africans diaspora with Europeans and indigenous mixture .. culturely =mixture of Africans/Europeans/indigenous. ...😞😞😞😞
The word was invented by the Spaniards to call the people born in Santo Domingo (Dominicans) back then know as (Criollos Españoles=Spanish Creoles)
@@WarrenFearchild well we culturize it because every unique about us Creole, complexion, fashion, music 🎵, dance , religion, culinary, beauty, pigs , cows , chickens .our style of home 🏠, it is a way of life for us. It is us we are it. 👍🏿😁😁😁🤷🏾
Haitians are black asl, blacker than jamaicans. Only african majority dna.
Louisiana Creole here. Great video Mason! 😀
Martinique creole ! ,😍
With regard to Afrikaans, there were about 600 Dutch settlers in the Cape when 200 French Hugenutes came. They were placed in farms inbetween the Dutch, as not to form a seperate group. Except for very few words, no African language were absorbed. With Malasian slaves the rithem got influenced. The sailor influence is very great. Coloureds speak a hydrid of Afrikaans, sometimes called goema. This is somethings of a mix between Afrikaans. Afrikaans is currently beign angligised a lot, and one seldom hear pure speakers anymore.
People have made the argument that English is a creole language due to the large french , Latin and Greek influences on it
interesting vid btw
English itself is a creole language
Such beautiful people, nice to learn about them.
pseudopetrus Thanks
Creole languages are not broken and are not a corruption of any language.. stop using this insulting and racist terminology
The Bislamic languages (Bislama, Tok Pisin, and Solomon Islands Pidgin) are a family of creoles. Although two have "pidgin" in their names (but "pisin" meaning "bird" is from "pigeon"), they have been spoken long enough to have native speakers, and have thus become creoles.
Nothing was mentiomned about CapeVerdian and other Portuguese Creole
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Yes he did at 3:41 👍
Croelized English is present throughout America. Louisiana Creole is quite beautiful. My native tounge is Jamaican Patios.
Créole = Louisiana , Haiti , St.martin.Martinique.Guadeloupe.St.Lucie.Guyana(french). Aruba.Bonaire.Curaçoa.Cape Vert .Reunion Island .Mauricia Island . Seychelle (might miss some places)Most of us listen to Zouk,Kompa,Kizomba ,Sega music... If you’re not from one of these countries you are not really creole , you just someone who fucked a language. All these creole colonies have influences from Portugual . France or Deutchland .. English or Spanish nations are not included
You are correct, that is the current meaning of creole.
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That's very interesting please explain more Louisiana is not a country I'm in America so there fifty other states not spoken for plus from what I learned creole is a mix of black and European period any other is an addition to the creole mix . Not disputing you just trying to get the full scope of your comment.
Dave Lopes
I don't know if that's correct
You forgot Dominica,Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago there are still French Patois/ French Creole Speakers in these places as well.
topcat seriosblack no its not correct, the OP is being a dunce!
Don’t forget about the Mobilan Jargon creole, we spoke a mix of Muskogee, Chata and French
This group might be most similar to Louisiana Creoles
What about Suriname ??
Suriname speak Dutch.
@@AbstractDivinity1 they speak taki taki which is a creole
@@Rickeau1 I know however Dutch is the official language.
From Curacao with ancestral trail in Guinea-Bissua/Angola.
through a DNA testing?
Ahhhh where is Haiti 🇭🇹 he didn’t say nothing about us
Yes he did. Watch the whole video.
I forgot
1) The Gullah language of coastal South Carolina and coastal Georgia can be considered a creole language; Gullah wasn't mentioned at all in this video.
2) Creole of any kind should not be confused with Criollos of colonial Latin America, who were the native-born whites over there; that wasn't pointed out in this video.
The way he said Dominica made me cringe ngl😭
Lol mon sav oui 🇩🇲
Can Afrikaans truly be considered a Creole language? I can sympathise with your arguments but I feel it could be seen as something separate due to its distinct history.
Jochem Scheelings
Your reaching black and European mixed creole that simple. History doesn't matter when it comes to that distinction.
Mø Nälayé
I've looked up the definition Look up the definition to etymology and why the word was created just like Latino you can't be Latino unless you have black in period everyone can speak what they want what you are makes the language and creole is a mix of european and black . It's nothing but the european word for mullatto. I appreciate you trying to point me in the right direction
Mø Nälayé
Did you check out what I spoke on . About creoles and Latinos if you have you will see what I'm talking about .
Congrats to Russians for making it to the Quarter-Finals!!!
Thanks for sharing :) My grandfather was Mauritian Creole :D
I’m Cuban American, however growing up I identified as being of mixed race because I also have Afro Cuban, creole, and Chinese Cuban. I speak Spanish, English & French & was an t interpreter for many years...all I can say is it’s a cultural way of speaking, mannerisms how you were raised...it’s in your blood
When does a language go from being a creole language to just a language? Like those that are Latin languages such as Spanish and Italian or Germanic languages such as English and Flemish.