French Creole

E212869

French Creole is a group of creole languages that developed primarily from French vocabulary mixed with African, Caribbean, and other linguistic influences, spoken in various regions such as the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and parts of the Americas.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
French Creole canonical 7
Creole French 1
French Creole languages 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (61)

Predicate Object
instanceOf creole language group
language family
developedFrom colonial plantation societies
contact between French speakers and enslaved Africans
hasFeature SVO word order
postposed definite articles in many varieties
reduced inflectional morphology
tense–mood–aspect particles
hasInfluenceFrom African languages
Amerindian languages
Caribbean languages
English language
Portuguese language
Spanish language
linked to: Spanish
hasPrimaryLexifier French language
linked to: French
hasSociolinguisticStatus historically stigmatized in many regions
increasingly recognized in education and media
often coexists with French in diglossic situations
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
includesLanguage Dominican Creole French
linked to: Antillean Creole

Guadeloupean Creole French
linked to: Antillean Creole

Guianan Creole
Haitian Creole
Karipúna French Creole
linked to: Guianan Creole

Louisiana Creole
Martinican Creole French
linked to: Antillean Creole

Mauritian Creole
Réunion Creole
Saint Lucian Creole French
linked to: Antillean Creole

Seychellois Creole
originPeriod 17th century
18th century
spokenInCountry Canada
Dominica
Dominican Republic
French Guiana
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Martinique
Mauritius
Réunion
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Seychelles
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Venezuela
spokenInRegion Caribbean
Central America
Indian Ocean
North America
South America
subclassOf French-based creole
typology analytic language
isolating language
usedInDomain everyday communication
oral literature
popular music
religious practice

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kwéyòl subclassOf French Creole
Cloutierville, Louisiana hasCulturalInfluence French Creole
Vincentian Creole English hasInfluenceFrom French creole languages
linked to: French Creole
Réunion Creole languageFamily French Creole
Kouri-Vini hasLanguageFamily French Creole
CODOFIL languageFocus Creole French
linked to: French Creole
Morisyen subclassOf French Creole
Morisyen hasLanguageFamily French Creole languages
linked to: French Creole