French-based creole languages
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A French creole, more properly French-based creole language, is a creole language with substantial influence from the French language.
The main French creoles are
- Haitian creole or Kreyol ayisyen, is a language spoken primarily in Haiti. It is the largest French-derived language in the world, with a total of 12 million fluent speakers. French is its superstrate language, with numerous African languages and some local indigenous languages providing substrate input. Some words are also derived from English, and Spanish.
- Antillean Creole is a language spoken primarily in the French (and some of the English) Lesser Antilles, such as Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Lucia and many other smaller islands. Although all of the creoles spoken on these islands are considered to be the same language, there are noticeable differences between the dialects of each island.
- French Guiana Creole is a language spoken in French Guiana, and to a lesser degree in Suriname and Guyana. It is closely related to Antillean Creole, but there are some noteworthy differences between the two.
- Louisiana Creole French (Kreyol Lwiziyen), the Louisiana creole, spoken mainly by lower middle-class Creoles in Louisiana.
- Mauritian Creole, spoken as the lingua franca in Mauritius
- Réunion Creole, Spoken on Réunion Island.
- Seychellois Creole, also known as Seselwa, Seychellois Creole is an official language, along with English and French, as well as the lingua franca of the Seychelles.
- Lanc-Patuá, spoken in Brazil, mostly in Amapá state. It has influenced by Portuguese as a substrate. It was developed by immigrants from neighboring French Guiana and French territories of the Caribbean.
| Languages derived from French see also French-based creole languages |
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In the Americas: Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen) • Michif • Lanc-Patuá |
