Creole

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Creole may refer to:

Anthropology

  • Creole peoples, ethnic groups which originated from linguistic, cultural, and often racial mixing of colonial-era emigrants from Europe with non-European peoples
  • Criollo people, the historic name of people of full or near full Spanish descent in Colonial Hispanic America and the Spanish East Indies.
  • Louisiana Creole people, people descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana before it became a part of the United States during the period of both French and Spanish rule
  • Creole language, a language that originated as a mixed language. Many creole languages are known by their speakers as some variant of "creole", for example spelled Kriol.
    • List of creole languages
      • English-based creole languages, sometimes abbreviated English creoles
      • French-based creole languages, also termed Bourbonnais creole or Mascarene creole in western Indian Ocean islands

Music

  • Creole music, a genre of folk music in Louisiana, the United States

Performers and record labels

Works

  • La créole, an 1875 opéra comique, with music by Jacques Offenbach
  • Creole (album), a 1998 album by David Murray released on the Justin Time label
  • "Creole" (song), a 2006 song from the album B'Day by Beyonce

Ships

  • French ship Créole, various ships of the French Navy
  • Creole, an American slave ship involved in the Creole case

Other uses

  • Creole marble, a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia, United States
  • Creole (markup), a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis
  • Creole, Louisiana, a community in Cameron Parish, Louisiana
  • Creole Petroleum Corporation, an American oil company formed in 1920 and nationalized by Venezuela in 1976
  • Louisiana Creole cuisine, a style of cooking originating in Louisiana

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Creole
  • All pages with titles beginning with Creole
  • Broken English (disambiguation)
  • Creola (disambiguation)
  • Criollo (disambiguation)
  • Crioulo (disambiguation)
  • Krio (disambiguation)
  • Pidgin, a simplified language originating from a blend of languages
  • Pidgin (disambiguation)
  • Isle Brevelle
  • Brevelle Bayou
  • Cane River
  • Natchitoches Parish
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