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Some creoles have wider reaches than others.
Some are odder linguistic mutts than others. This one, spoken by almost a quarter of a million island people, can trace its origins back to as many as five languages. First, a quick definition of terms seems to be necessary since there seems to be some disagreement about what the question was really asking. Creole languages and their pidgin antecedents exist all over the world, from the Italian variations spoken in the medieval western Mediterranean, to the 17th-century English varieties spoken in America by its native occupants, and other local tongues spoken throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The most famous are those based on English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese and spoken in the Caribbean.