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| | Pidgins and Creoles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The Gullah language is a creolized English still spoken in the east-central coastal states of the United States. |
| | Other English-based creoles, comprising 5 million speakers, include Jamaican Creole, Sranantongo (Surinam), Krio (Sierra Leone), Tok Pisin or Melanesian Pidgin English (Papua New Guinea), and various creolized varieties of English spoken throughout the British-influenced Caribbean, in Hawaii, and in coastal areas of West Africa. |
| | Portuguese-based creoles include Papiamento, which also has some Spanish derivation, as well as varieties in use in the Cape Verde Islands and the Gulf of Guinea. |
| www.encyclopedia.mu /Society/Language/CreoleLanguages.htm (206 words) |
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