Creole
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The word Creole is an adaptation of the Castillian-Spanish word criollo, which came into English from French between 1595 and 1605. Creole and its cognates in other languages (such as crioulo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kriulo, kriol, krio, etc.) may refer to:
- a person of Spanish (or French or Portuguese) ancestry but born in one of the Spanish (or French) colonies, as opposed to a Spaniard (or Frenchman or Portuguese) born in Spain (or France or Portugal)
- any of the Creole peoples, a number of distinct ethnic groups in various countries
- a creole language, a type of language formed from a pidgin
- Creoles and patois spoken on islands formerly under French colonial rule
- the Creole Pig, a breed of pig from Haiti
- a casual reference to mean "pertaining to New Orleans" or aspects of its culture
- a programming database abstraction layer for PHP5 named Creole
- La Compagnie Creole, a 1980s French pop band
- in converging technologies, technical vocabulary common to several disciplines which allows stakeholder to communicate effectively
The term Louisiana Creole usually refers to the Louisiana Creole people in the US, and concepts associated with them
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