Creole peoples

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The term Creole and its cognates in other languages — such as crioulo, criollo, creolo, créole, kriolu, criol, kreyol, kreol, kriol, krio, etc. — have been applied to people in different countries and epochs, with rather different meanings. Typically, creole peoples are fully or partially descended from white European colonial settlers. Their language, culture and/or racial origin represents the creolization resulting from the interaction and adaptation of colonial-era emigrants from Europe with non-European peoples, climates, cuisines, etc.

The development of creole languages is attributed to, but independent of, the emergence of a creole ethnic identity.

The following ethnic groups have been historically characterized as "creole" peoples:The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo. This word, a derivative of the verb criar ("to raise"), was coined in the 15th century, in the trading and military outposts established by Portugal in West Africa. It originally referred to descendants of the Portuguese settlers who were born and raised overseas. While the Portuguese may have originally reserved the term crioulo for people of strictly European descent, the crioulo population came to be dominated by people of mixed ancestry (mestiços). This mixing happened relatively quickly in most Portuguese colonies. The growth of a mixed population was due to both the scarcity of Portuguese women in the settlements, and to the Portuguese Crown policy of encouraging mixed marriages in the colonies to create loyal colonial populations.

• Afro-Brazilian Crioulos
• Aku Krio people
• Belizean Kriol people
• Criollo people
• Fernandino Creole peoples
• Haitian Creole people
  • Affranchis
• Afro-Honduran Creoles
• Liberian Creole people
• Louisiana Creole people
  • Creoles of color
• Mauritian Creole people
• Nigerian Creole people
• Seychellois Creole people
• Sierra Leone Creole people
• Surinamese Creole people

Creole-Speaking Countries and their Populations* 

most of this country are in the Caribbean region and country in the Indian ocean   

• Dominica 751
• Grenada 344
• Guadeloupe 1,709
• French Guiana  
• Haiti 27,750
• Louisiana 235,675
• Martinique 1,100 
• Mauritius 2,040
• St. Lucia 616 
• st Thomas 83  
• Seychelles 410 
• Trinidad 5,128