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by the grains as the rice cooks. Both creole and cajun versions exist; ... 350 px|right|Dishes typical of Louisiana Creole cuisine.]] ...

a journalism position with the English-language Kobe Chronicle, and in 1896 ... include articles about the city's Creole population and distinctive ...

Salvador. Until the early 1980s, Belizean Creole constituted 70 percent of ... Though no longer the majority, Creole culture is still dominant in ...

opposition parties is white, despite the Creole majority, there is a perception ... Seychelles culture is a mixture of French and African (Creole) influences ...

Other popular dishes in the Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana include ... gumbopages.com/recipe-page.html The creole and Cajun recipe page.] The ...

== Language == Cape Verde's official language is Portuguese, but Portuguese ...

Largely populated by Indian and Creole descendants of those brought ... * Lee, Jacques. Mauritius Its Creole Language - the Ultimate Creole ...

Major ethnic groups represented include creole (mulatto), black, Guadeloupe ... common languages include Guadeloupian Creole, Haitian Creole, Italian ...

reflected in the common, but unofficial, language of the island being a French ... English is the country's official language, but most people also ...

are Cajun and Louisiana and French Creole, and later Irish, Italian ... ;Cajun and Creole population Cajuns and Creoles of French ancestry ...

"patois," a French-based creole language, is the mother tongue ... The West African influences in Dominica remain in aspects of language ...

Pitkern is a creole language derived from eighteenth century English ... Pitcairn culture, like its language, is a mix of English and Tahitian ...

resulted in a unique mixed culture known as Creole. Guadeloupe was ... cuisine; and in the widely spoken local Creole language. ...

blends Comorian and Malagasy styles with Creole and European genres. ... *Shimaore, a dialect of the Comorian language (a close relative of Swahili) ...

|languages=Miskito, Spanish, Miskito Creole English |religions=Christianity ... Mosquito Coast. There is a native Miskito language, but large groups speak ...

The dominant language of the region is Spanish and is the official ... The Creole, Afro-Caribbean, and Garifuna populations form the majority ...

The official language is English, although Virgin Islands Creole, an English-based dialect, is spoken in informal situations. The Virgin Islands ...

Tagalog is the third most spoken language at 5.4 percent, followed ... century, a Creole English developed. A Creole language is typically considered ...

Durham, England in 1806, the daughter of Creole plantation owner Edward Moulton ... owed her profound knowledge of the Greek language and much mental stimulus ...

speaks Kriol, a Portuguese-based creole language, and the remainder speaks ... Bissau Creole, a Portuguese-based creole language, and are often humorous ...

Reunion is very similar in culture, ethnic makeup, language, and traditions ... Although French is the official language, Creole is the language of ...

* Safran in creole Mauritius * Curcuma in Portuguese and French * Куркума (kurkuma) in Macedonian * Kurkuma in Finnish * Gurkmeja in Swedish ...

A third language of the Torres Straits is a creole language that has developed over the last hundred years or so. This Torres Strait Creole is also known ...

good" or "noble" in their language. A system of cacicazgos ... Haiti's official languages are French and Haitian Creole (Kreyòl ...

Antaisaka, Sakalava), French, Indian, Creole, and Comoran. ... three official languages. The Malagasy language is of Malayo-Polynesian ...

English is the country's only official language, but Bhojpuri ... initiated the Spanish as a First Foreign Language (SAFFL) initiative with ...

franca of the colony was Krio, a creole language rooted in eighteenth ... The Krio language, a native language of the Krio people, is spoken ...

Languages spoken are English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Caribbean ... region resemble that of the Louisiana creole soups like gumbo. ...

is not the same as voodoo, which is a Caribbean creole folk religion. Hoodoo was predominant in areas with large slave populations, as it was in Africa ...

(as well as the neighboring island of Aruba). The creole used here descends from Portuguese and West African languages with a strong admixture of Dutch ...

include shrimp kebabs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp and lemon shrimp, coconut ...

It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... Cherokee; Ndjuka, an English-based creole language of Surinam; and the ...

The official language, English, is used in the government. But Grenadian ... in French remain, as well as the everyday language, which is laced with French ...

Cuba; many of whom spoke Spanish or Haitian Creole. Today, the Miami ... As of 2000, speakers of Spanish as their first language accounted ...

Lebanese descent. There are many people of Creole descent, a mixture of Afro ... The country's official language is British English, the local ...

government, led by the NPK (a largely Creole, meaning ethnically African ... Tongo is an English language-based creole language (due to over 20 years ...

A unique Creole culture exists here, the result of the intermingling ... practiced denomination. The official language is English, but many of ...

on matters concerning Ni-Vanuatu culture and language. Since 1994, ... English, French, and Bislama (a creole language which evolved from English ...

like its Caribbean neighbors, is a creole blend of mostly African and ... Spanish is the official language of Dominican Republic. Other languages ...

The country's official language is English. French Creole was once widely spoken, but has been in sharp decline. A French patois may be ...

degradation of royal power took place. The Creole rebellion of Huánuco arose ... Supported by the power of the Creole oligarchy, the Viceroyalty of ...

Islanders speak both English and a Creole language known as “Norfuk,” a blend of 1700s-English and Tahitian. The Norfuk language is decreasing ...

long colonization of the New World. Language, music, and cuisine are ... one of two sources: Either the Aymara language lima-limaq (meaning "yellow ...

became Malaysia's sole national language in 1967. English is widely ... Chavacano, the only Spanish-based creole language in Asia. Television ...

languages, wrote texts in the Aztec language and organized the local ... opened his house not only to Frenchified creole intellectuals from whom he ...

Virgin Islands for many years, the dominant language has been an English-based Creole since the nineteenth century, and the islands remain much more ...

Properly known as Lukumí in the Yorùbá language, meaning "friendship ... staple food of many African-descended and Creole cultures, are the most common ...

flour, a staple of the race. Their language is a member of the Maipurean ... language is an Arawakan dialect or creole language—or perhaps a distinct ...

English was established as the main language for governance, until after ... replacement of English as the official language by Sinhala and Tamil. ...

French is the official language, used regularly by a minority of Senegalese educated in a system styled upon the colonial-era schools of French ...

Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved ... of the population speaks an indigenous language, those tongues (of which ...

provinces with respect to road access and language groups, so that such statutes ... and the New Guinea Islands—speak the creole language New Guinea Pidgin ( ...

spoke only English at home as a first language, while 16.46 percent spoke ... that "English is the official language of the State of Florida ...

is no evidence that they utilized written language, although they did use the ... the Spaniards did impose their language to the degree they did their ...

called in Wolof (the most widely spoken language in the West African nation ... Saint-Louis. A Franco-African Creole, or Métis, merchant community ...

the conservation of their culture and language, given the traditional predominance ... In terms of first language learned (in infancy), the 2001 census reported ...

Cusco (also spelled Cuzco, and in the Quechua language as Qusqu ... 1781, led by Tupac Amaru II (1742-1981). A Creole rebellion in the city of ...

Africa where Spanish is an official language (excluding the Spanish exclaves ... islands, and "Fernandinos," a Creole community, on Bioko. Together ...

and White. The country's official language is English. ... remains in the country's official language, English, while some islanders ...

of the Aztec and Maya, and by language to the Mesoamerican Linguistic ... by other peoples, mostly Chibcha language groups. They had coalesced ...

Maroon War in the 1790s, formed the core of the creole community of Sierra Leone. Slavery ended in Jamaica on August 1, 1834, with the passing ...

spoken are English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), and Urdu. Religions, according to the 2002 census ...

Lorenzo Combat")), references in English language refer to the event as the "Battle of San Lorenzo." On January 28, 1813, San Martín ...

The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south ...

translated the old songs from the Slovene language into English, and arranged ... Over the course of time, elements of creole people and afro-venezuelan ...

languages: Portuguese (the official language, spoken by 95 percent), ... The old African creole families that figured prominently in the history ...

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... type of language is generally called a creole language. An example of such ...

Indian minorities also exist, as well as Creole-speaking minorities mostly ... the country. French is the official language of the country. ...

Jamaica's language of government and education is English, although the patois form of Jamaican Creole is widely spoken. Most Jamaicans ...

Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Retrieved ... activist, and diplomat. "The ultimate creole intellectual…. A true polymath ...

led an indigenous rebellion from 1780 to 1781. A Creole rebellion in the city of Huánuco arose in 1812. The Viceroyalty of Peru succumbed to campaigns ...

collaboration of the mantuanos, the white creole elite. Meanwhile, the Napoleonic ... The most widely-spoken and official language is Spanish, although ...

has found a correlation of the Sinhalese language with the languages of the ... English was established as the main language for governance, until after ...

to map the change over time of sounds in a language. In the first half ... anthropology, which studies variation in language across time and space and ...

Empire invaded the Viceroyalty, but the Creole population managed to repel ... The only national official language of Argentina is Spanish, though ...

estimated 4,000 Cherokee. In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna ... a collection of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the South ...

Aboriginal English, Torres Strait Creole, Kriol |related= see List ... peoples of New Guinea, and speak a Papuan language. Accordingly, they are not ...

Accordions are played in Tejano music, Cajun and Creole music, zydeco, klezmer, and polka.last=Simonett |first=Helena |title=The accordion in ...

foreign-born, and 5.1 percent reported speaking a language other than English at home. In 2000, there were 2,194,594 households in Missouri, with ...

Luisa Erciná Chevalier, whose parents were of creole Haitian origin. Chevalier, Trujillo's maternal grandmother, was the daughter of Justin ...

Portuguesa—Community of Portuguese Language Countries). The only international ... Portuguese, the official language, is a Romance language that originated ...