A French creole, or French-based creole language, is a creole for which French is the lexifier, most often not modern French but a seventeenth or eighteenth century koine of French drawn from Paris, the French Atlantic harbors and the nascent French colonies. The subject also encompasses French pidgin languages, contact languages that lack native speakers.
Facts
Regionthe Americas and archipelagos throughout the Indian Ocean 1 Speaker Count In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
Sources
1. French-based creole languages, Wikipedia
History section, opening sentence
French-based creole languages today are spoken natively by millions of people worldwide, primarily in the Americas and on archipelagos throughout the Indian Ocean.
Introduction, opening section
There are over 15.5 million speakers of some form of French-based creole languages.
View the SourceWikidata: French-based Creole
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