Creolism

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Under creolistics refers to the branch of linguistics that deals with the pidgin and creole languages is concerned, which is the concept of genetic linguistic relationship escape.

The German linguist Hugo Schuchardt , the Dutch Dirk Christiaan Hesseling and the Portuguese Francisco A. Coelho are considered to be the founders of Creole Studies . Creole studies include the academic study of the Creole languages ​​that have arisen from a language contact situation as well as the culture of the countries in which these languages ​​are spoken or were spoken. Creole languages ​​have developed overseas, especially after the colonial expansion of European countries, and are mostly the result of contact between speakers of one or more basic European languages ​​(English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch) with indigenous languages ​​in Africa, Asia and America. Today there are around 13 to 14 million native speakers of Creole languages ​​worldwide. The most important creolophone countries are Haiti, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Réunion, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao of the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname and Sierra Leone. Another understanding of Creolism also includes the language varieties of Afro-American speakers in the English, Spanish, French and Portuguese-speaking countries of America and Africa, as well as those in the Republic of South Africa (Afrikaans) (approx. 130 million).