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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

크리올어

Pronunciation / Transliteration: keuriol-eo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Creole/ˈkriː.oʊl/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"아이티 크리올어는 많은 사람들이 사용하는 언어입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A stable natural language that has developed from a pidgin into a full and formal language with native speakers.

    "Haitian Creole is widely spoken throughout the island nation and has official status alongside French."
  2. 2

    A person of mixed European and Black descent, especially in the Caribbean or parts of the Americas.

    "The cultural heritage of the region is deeply shaped by its diverse Creole population."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Portuguese 'crioulo', meaning a domestic servant born in the master's house, which itself stems from 'criar' (to breed or raise). The term traveled through Spanish ('criollo') and French ('créole') during the colonial era, initially describing people of European descent born in the colonies, and later evolving to denote the stable naturalized languages that developed from pidgins through contact between different speech communities.

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