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  Spanish language - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Spanish is one of the official languages of the United Nations, the European Union and the African Union.
Spanish is a relatively inflected language, with a two-gender system and about fifty conjugated forms per verb, but no noun declension and limited pronominal declension.
Spanish has a phonemic stress system — the place where stress will fall cannot be predicted by other features of the word, and two words can differ by just a change in stress.
open-encyclopedia.com /Spanish_language   (1909 words)

  
 Creole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Throughout the colonial history of Latin America, the Spanish caste system made distinction between criollos and the higher-ranking and governing peninsulares, despite both being of pure Spanish ancestry — the only distinction being that the latter were born on the Iberian Peninsula, hence the name.
A definition from the earliest history in New Orleans; ie, circa 1718; is: a child born in the colony as opposed to France.
In the Caribbean region the term creole is used to describe anyone, regardless of race or ethnicity, that was born and raised in the region.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Creole   (1154 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Spanish language
The Spanish language (Castellano or Español) is a Romance language, the third or fourth most spoken language on the planet, spoken by about 352 million persons in 1999 in the seven continents, especially in The Americas (417,000,000 including second language users).
Spanish verbs are conjugated in four moodss: indicative, subjunctive, conditional or potential, and imperative.
The future tense is found mostly in old literature or legalese and is even misused in conversations by confusing it with the past tense (often due to the similarity of its charataristic suffix, "-ere", as opposed to one of the suffixes of the past tense, "-era").
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/s/sp/spanish_language.html   (2719 words)

  
 Book Encyclopedia - Web Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Creole of the island of Ano Bom (Equatorial Guinea) acknowledged as Falar de Ano Bom (Fá d'Ambô or even Fla d'Ambu) is analogous to the Portuguese Creole Forro, spoken by 9,000 people in Ano Bom and Fernando Póo Islands.
Ladino is not a creole but an independent evolution of the Medieval Castilian language historically spoken by Sephardic Jews in Southern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
It is mostly based on Spanish, with influences of Hebrew, French, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and the South Slavic languages.
www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Spanish_Creole   (1437 words)

  
 Creole language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The majority of creole languages are based on English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and other languages (their superstrate language), with local or immigrant languages as substrate languages.
An Arabic-based creole spoken by descendants of Sudanese soldiers mainly in Kenya and Uganda, formed in the nineteenth century from a Sudanese Arabic-based pidgin used for intercommunication among southern Sudanese ethnic groups.
Linguists dispute whether it is a heavily English-influenced Portuguese creole, supported by SIL Surinam and Ian Hancock; or a somewhat Portuguese-influenced English creole; the latter view is supported by Derek Bickerton and John McWhorter.
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Creole_language   (1087 words)

  
 Papiamentu.net - Language
This creole language is being spoken north of Venezuela on Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire--islands of the leeward Netherlands Antilles.
However, due to the considerable Spanish influence on Papiamentu, a group of authors considers Papiamentu a Spanish-based creole (the Spanish hypothesis).
In their opinion, Papiamentu is a direct descendant of the Spanish that was used in the area during the Spanish rule, and the small Portuguese, English, and Dutch influence came later.
www.papiamentu.net /curacao/language.html   (584 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Spanish Creole
List of Spanish-based Creole languages: A Creole is a language descended from a pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people.
Papiamento or Papiamentu is a Creole language and it is the primary language spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire.
A Portuguese Creole is a creole language based on the Portuguese language.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Spanish-Creole   (3230 words)

  
 HLAS 50 Spanish, Portuguese, Creole Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Certain lexicographical contributions in Spanish are valuable because of their high levels of sense discrimination (items bi 89006944, bi 89006863, and bi 89006952).
Historical treatments include an understanding of Mexican Spanish (item bi 89007010), etymologies of words of Bantu origin (item bi 89007019), etymologies of Portuguese terms (item bi 89007045), and an historical treatment of the semantic expansion of "criollo" and "crioulo" (item bi 89006865).
Pidgin and Creole studies include an article on a Pidgin Spanish (item bi 89007051), a debate between Creole and polymorphism (item bi 89007049), the officialization of Haitian Creole (item bi 89007939) and the use of langpatua (item bi 89007052).
lcweb2.loc.gov /hlas/hum50lang-powers.html   (266 words)

  
 Spanish Creole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This Creole is reportedly becoming more similar to Spanishlanguage as the time passes, but it is originally a PortugueseCreole.
The Creole of the island of Ano Bom (Equatorial Guinea) acknowledged as Falar de Ano Bom (Fá d’ambô or evenFla d’Ambu) is analogous to the Portuguese Creole Forro, spoken by 9,000people in Ano Bom and Fernando Póo Islands.
Tagalog was the most-influenced language because the center of the Spanishcolonial government was in Manila, in the heart of the Tagalog-speaking region.
www.therfcc.org /spanish-creole-49181.html   (782 words)

  
 The King's Road
As the Spanish and French empires sought riches in the unexplored lands, they raced for the central frontier, which is now Texas and Louisiana.
Having been arrested by the Spanish in south Texas as he tried to establish friendly trade, he served as a guide to Domingo Ramon in 1716 and was a suitor to Ramon's niece.
Old Spanish Lake, near Los Adaes, was once flooded by the overflow of the Red River until a clearing operation in the mid 1800s opened the river to Shreveport, draining the lake.
www.houstonculture.org /terra/king.html   (2308 words)

  
 Spanish Creole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Chavacano (also Chabacano, meaning "vulgar" in standard Spanish) is a Spanish-based Creole spoken in the Philippines.
Tagalog was the most-influenced language because the center of the Spanish colonial government was in Manila, in the heart of the Tagalog-speaking region.
The adoption of Spanish words into Tagalog was so prevalent that many Filipinos do not even realize that they can vaguely understand rudimentary Spanish.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/spanish_creole   (856 words)

  
 Station Information - Spanish Creole
Papiamento or Papiamentu is a Creole language spoken by 329000 people.
This Creole is reported to becoming more similar to Spanish language as the time passes.
Some indigenous languages are deeply influenced by the Spanish language, but seems to be classified as different than Creole by linguistic writers.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spanish_creole.html   (359 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The First America : The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots and the Liberal State 1492-1866   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Spanish conquest of America generated a profusion of chronicles, tracts and poetry, among which are figured several classics of the Renaissance.
creole chroniclers, creole pretensions, creole patriotism, creole nobility, three mendicant orders, insurgent juntas, his patria, creole clergy, creole patriots, labour levies, papal donation, general chronicler, native civilisation, current viceroy, cerro rico, outright enslavement, native flock, historia sumaria, general visitation, peaceful conversion, unfortunate natives, royal magistrates, two viceroys, native peasantry, creole landowners
The sad and unstated coda to the book is that the work is not done, and the sins of the absolutist fathers are still being visited upon the sons and daughters of latin america.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521447968?v=glance   (929 words)

  
 Department of Spanish and Portuguese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Courses I routinely teach include History of the Spanish Language, Intro to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, Latin American Spanish, Spanish in the USA, and Introduction to Pidgin and Creole Languages.
"Creole Spanish and Afro-Hispanic." Bilingualism and Linguistic Conflict in Romance, Trends in Romance Linguistics and Philology, 5, ed.
Spanish creoles and creolistics in Latin America: Past, Present, and Future.
www.humanities.uci.edu /spanishandportuguese/v2/faculty/schwegler/schwegler.shtml   (2725 words)

  
 Spanish Made Easy and Practical For Filipinos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
If you are going to work for a Spanish owned company based in the Philippines or if you are an exporter, importer, salesman, buyer or businessman planning to buy, and sell to the World's 358 million Spanish speakers in Spain, South America, and Africa, a knowledge of Spanish would obviously be helpful.
In addition to the Hispanismos in the Filipino dialects, it should also be mentioned that there exists a flourishing Creole Spanish dialect popularly known as "Chabacano" in three areas of the Philippines.
The ability to speak in a variety of languages and dialects or to be a multilingual speaker empowers and enables you to be flexible and useful in conversations and in your job.
filipinokastila.tripod.com   (1840 words)

  
 Spanish Creole biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Like Papiamento, it is originally a Portuguese creole with some borrowings from Spanish.
Ladino is not a creole but an independent evolution of Medioeval Castilian language spoken by Sephardic Jews in Southern Europe, Middle East, and North Africa.
It is mostly based on Spanish, with influences of Hebrew, French, Turkish, Arabic and Slavic languages.
spanish-creole.biography.ms   (1376 words)

  
 Manuel Barbera, Corpus based computational linguistic resources. Languages: S-Z (§ 3.5).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
There is also a Spanish component in the Multilingual Collection (English UK and USA, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish) made from narratives elicited using Mercer Mayer's "frog story" picture book.
Hub-5 Spanish speech and transcript data may be obtained (1500$) by emailing ldc@ldc.upenn.edu; cf.
Among the Spanish tools they sell there are linguistic reviser (Revisor), orthographical checker (Ortógrafo), an online verbe conjugator, a Thesaurus, an online hyphenator, etc. There isn't true corpus linguistic tools, but still an interesting site.
www.bmanuel.org /clr3_sz.html   (8496 words)

  
 Creole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As to making creole the primary language of the country and have French and English become secondary languages, I think that it would be a grave mistake for several reasons: 1) Haiti is a tiny country entirely and increasingly dependent on commerce with the outside world for its material survival.
The Creole Institute at Indiana University is recognized as the only center in the United States that is equipped to deal in depth with linguistic and related educational issues in Haiti.
Because of my traveling to Haiti, i did have to learn to speak Creole, it is one of the most beautiful language i have ever spoken, thru it i did have the chance to be in contact with your the Haitian people, your history and all the great things that your country has.
www.haitiglobalvillage.com /sd-kreyol/Creole.htm   (6271 words)

  
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Originally, pidgin and creole languages were thought of as incomplete, broken, corrupt, not worthy of serious attention.
Creole English and Creole French most common in New World; Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese Creoles common elsewhere and are important in development of all Creoles (Spanish Creole in Philippines, Portuguese in South, Southeast and E. Asia).
Doesn't matter whether the origins are monogenetic or polygenetic, the similarities result when the donor languages are ``stripped bare" and the languages are built up again according to the principles of ``linguistic universals".
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/540/handouts/pijcreol/pijcreol.html   (764 words)

  
 Criollo (Creole) - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Creole, in it's original sense and definition, is the combination of French and Spanish, as it is recorded in Early Louisiana and New Orleans census records.
In the past couple of years with the fashionable rise of Creole cooking suddenly every 1/2 race Black wanted you to believe that they are Creole, but African is NOT a part of Creole heritage.
Creole heritage is purely European French and Spanish together.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=137516   (1313 words)

  
 Creole - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A person descended from or culturally related to the Spanish and Portuguese settlers of the Gulf States.
A Black slave born in the Americas as opposed to one brought from Africa.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Creoles.
www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/c/c0739900.html   (130 words)

  
 Manuel Barbera, Corpus based computational linguistic resources. Languages: J-R (§ 3.4).
The Corpus of Written British Creole was compiled at Lancaster University with financial support from the British Academy.
The Corpus of Written British Creole is very small in corpus linguistic terms (around 12,000 words), but was projected, selected and tagged (with CLAWS4) with great care.
Besides the transcription (trilinear, with Spanish translation provided), there are also freely downloadable Real Audio files, streaming or format, and MPEG files of the recording.
www.bmanuel.org /clr3_jr.html   (8502 words)

  
 Auto Dealer Training School, LLC - Classes in English ,Spanish and Creole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Auto Dealer Training School, LLC, also known as ADTS LLC, was organized in 2003 to represent and support the interests of the independent used car dealers, specifically spanish dealers in the State of Florida.
Never before was there a greater need for an “ALL SPANISH school and consulting specialists for the independent used car dealers”.
We do offer “ALL” our services in both English and Spanish, with Creole in the upcoming future.
www.autodealerschool.net   (112 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:PLN
Most members of the ethnic group speak Spanish as mother tongue, but some old people have limited proficiency in Spanish.
People are culturally distinct from nearby Spanish speakers.
Investigation needed: bilingual proficiency in Spanish, attitudes toward Spanish.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=PLN   (120 words)

  
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The following city areas have a population that speaks Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, English, Creole, Chinese, Japanese, French, Thai, Russian, Korean and Arabic: Tampa, Florida, FL, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, California, Chicago, IL, Illinois, San Antonio, Austin, Las Cruces, Albuquerque, and Tucson.
www.tampabaytranslations.com   (1216 words)

  
 Criollo (Creole) [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I see you are from Louisiana, and so I am sure that you have run across a lot of Blacks, and or Mulattos from that area calling themselves Creoles.Therefore, I cannot blame you for doubting what I have posted.
Things do change over time, and so I would venture to think that in your area, the word has been corrupted.That is the way it was always used here.
One that embraces our Spanish roots, and pays homage to our American identity.It is the term that if used properly, and insisted upon, will eventually free us from the ambiguity of a cultural term(Hispanic) that fails to take in the consideration of race.
www.stormfront.org /archive/t-137516   (1489 words)

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