Search results for "Creole language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The country's official language is English. French Creole was once widely spoken, but has been in sharp decline. A French patois may be ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- degradation of royal power took place. The Creole rebellion of Huánuco arose ... Supported by the power of the Creole oligarchy, the Viceroyalty of ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- Islanders speak both English and a Creole language known as “Norfuk,” a blend of 1700s-English and Tahitian. The Norfuk language is decreasing ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- long colonization of the New World. Language, music, and cuisine are ... one of two sources: Either the Aymara language lima-limaq (meaning "yellow ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
- became Malaysia's sole national language in 1967. English is widely ... Chavacano, the only Spanish-based creole language in Asia. Television ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- languages, wrote texts in the Aztec language and organized the local ... opened his house not only to Frenchified creole intellectuals from whom he ...16 KB (2,562 words) - 17:46, 9 November 2022
- Virgin Islands for many years, the dominant language has been an English-based Creole since the nineteenth century, and the islands remain much more ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- Properly known as Lukumí in the Yorùbá language, meaning "friendship ... staple food of many African-descended and Creole cultures, are the most common ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- English was established as the main language for governance, until after ... replacement of English as the official language by Sinhala and Tamil. ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- French is the official language, used regularly by a minority of Senegalese educated in a system styled upon the colonial-era schools of French ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved ... of the population speaks an indigenous language, those tongues (of which ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- 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 ( ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...40 KB (5,623 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- 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 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- called in Wolof (the most widely spoken language in the West African nation ... Saint-Louis. A Franco-African Creole, or Métis, merchant community ...21 KB (2,973 words) - 18:57, 22 December 2022
- the conservation of their culture and language, given the traditional predominance ... In terms of first language learned (in infancy), the 2001 census reported ...44 KB (6,520 words) - 21:16, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...22 KB (3,238 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- Africa where Spanish is an official language (excluding the Spanish exclaves ... islands, and "Fernandinos," a Creole community, on Bioko. Together ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- and White. The country's official language is English. ... remains in the country's official language, English, while some islanders ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
