Creole language

A creole language (or a creole) is a language that comes from a pidgin. Creoles seem very similar to each other, even if they come from different languages. There is not a widely accepted theory that explains why this happens.

 Related pages 
Lingua franca

 References 

 Other websites 
 Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL) 
 The Online Dictionary of Language Terminology