From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
Parent topics
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e]
- Multilingualism [r]: The state of knowing two or more languages, either in individuals or whole speech communities. [e]
- Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. [e]
- Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. [e]
Subtopics
- Contact language [r]: A type of language which is used when people who share no native language need to communicate. [e]
- Lingua franca [r]: Any language used for widespread communication between groups who do not share a native language or where native speakers are typically in the minority; name from 'Lingua Franca', a pidgin once used around the Mediterranean. [e]
- Pidgin [r]: A language with no native speakers and few uses, created spontaneously by two or more groups with no common language, using vocabulary and grammar from multiple sources; often a pidgin's grammar is rudimentary, and it has a restricted set of words, but in time they can develop into more complex 'expanded' pidgins with many more functions. [e]
- Diglossia [r]: Add brief definition or description
Creole languages
Some examples of creoles worldwide
Other related topics
Varieties controversially identified as creoles
Varieties incorrectly identified as creoles
- Afrikaans language [r]: West-Germanic language descended from and still closely related to Dutch spoken by many people in South Africa and Namibia [e]
- Singapore English [r]: Varieties of English spoken in Singapore; umbrella terms for these are Standard Singapore English (SSE) and Singapore Colloquial English (SCE, or 'Singlish'). [e]
- English language [r]: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. [e]
