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PORTUGUESE-BASED CREOLE [1 record]

Record 1 1996-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
OBS

Many [pidgins] have survived as creoles: e.g.,..., the Papiamento of Curaçao, an outgrowth of Pidgin Spanish and Portuguese.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
CONT

Créole: Langue qui ne se distingue d'un pidgin que par le fait qu'elle se transmet de parents à enfants, devenant ainsi la seule langue de certaines communautés [...]. Il existe des créoles à base d'anglais, de français et de portugais [...].

Spanish

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