Marinas are less plush than the Florida type but service is good and Creole cooking better.

Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.

Although the official language is Portuguese, most Cape Verdeans speak Cape Verdean Creole ( Crioulo in Portuguese, Kriolu or Kriol in Cape Verdean Creole ).

There is a rich repertoire of literature and songs in Creole.

Caribbean English is influenced by the English-based Creole varieties spoken, but they are not one and the same.

There is a great deal of variation in the way English is spoken, with a " Standard English " at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum and Creole languages at the other.

English is the official language and universally understood ; however, because of historic French domination, Antillean Creole, a French-lexified creole language, is also widely spoken.

Guadeloupe (; ; Antillean Creole: Gwadloup ) is a Caribbean island located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1, 628 square kilometres ( 629 sq.

Today the population of Guadeloupe is mainly of African or mixed descent and largely Roman Catholic, speaking French and a Creole patois ( Antillean Creole ).

One of the country's official languages is Haitian Creole, a French-based creole with African influences, as well as minor Spanish and Taíno influences.

Louisiana ( or ;, ; Louisiana Creole: Léta de la Lwizyàn ) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America.

Its official language is French, although many of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole ( Créole Martiniquais ).

Likewise, Hawaiian Creole English is commonly referred to by its speakers as " Pidgin ".

The official language is French, and Réunionese Creole is widely spoken.

Seychelles culture is a mixture of French and African ( Creole ) influences.

The local Seychellois Creole ( Kreol ), a creole language derived from French and African tongues, is the native language of 91. 8 % of the people ; but English and French are also commonly used.

In the Seychelles, the main television and radio network is operated by the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation which offers locally produced news and discussion programmes in the Seychellois Creole language.

Much of Cajun or Creole cuisine is based on France, and on Spain to a lesser extent.

By the late 19th century the British began large-scale immigration projects, mainly from Barbados, in an effort to Anglicise the island, which resulted in a decline in the use of French Creole in the songs so that by the 1930s English Creole became the language of Trinidad Calypso.

On 20 January 2009, an umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon ( LKP ) led by Élie Domota called for a € 200 ($ 260 USD ) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers.

Note that the aspectual systems of certain dialects of English, such as African-American Vernacular English ( see for example habitual be ), and of creoles based on English vocabulary, such as Hawaiian Creole English, are quite different from those of standard English, and often distinguish aspect at the expense of tense.

Creole languages, typically use the unmarked verb for timeless habitual aspect, or for stative aspect, or for perfective aspect in the past.

Jamaican Creole uses pan ( from English " upon ") for the present progressive and wa ( from English " was ") for the past progressive.

Eventually this style of housing ( brought by the Nova Scotians ) would be the model for the ' bod oses ' of their Creole descendants.

He had composed and recorded Creole Rhapsody as early as 1931 ( issued as both sides of a 12 " record for Victor and both sides of a 10 " record for Brunswick ), and his tribute to his mother, " Reminiscing in Tempo ," had filled four 10 " record sides in 1935 ; however, it was not until the 1940s that this became a regular feature of Ellington's work.

* Others ( see overview in ) have demonstrated creoles that serve as counterexamples to McWhorter's hypothesis — the existence of inflectional morphology in Berbice Dutch Creole, for example, or tone in Papiamentu.

* Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics ( SPCL )

Eventually this style of housing ( brought by the Nova Scotians ) would be the model for the ' bod oses ' of their Creole descendants.

Outside the city, Cajuns and Creoles often intermingle socially and culturally, and chances are that the cooking of Cajuns and Creoles living in Lawtell for example, have more in common with each other than the Creole dishes of a Lawtell resident and one from Isle Brevelle.

" These pseudonyms include: Jamie Starr and The Starr Company ( for the songs he wrote for The Time and many other artists from 1981 – 1984 ), Joey Coco ( for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s, as well as songs written for Sheena Easton & Kenny Rogers ), Paisley Park ( occasionally used in the early 1990s for his production credits on songs, including those written for Martika and Kid Creole ), Alexander Nevermind ( for writing the 1984 song " Sugar Walls " by Sheena Easton ), and Christopher ( used for his song writing credit of " Manic Monday " for The Bangles ).

Also, for his inveterate Creole French accent.

It is also the most common order developed in Creole languages, suggesting that it may be somehow more initially ' obvious ' to human psychology.

Locally, prawns and shrimp are often deep fried ; in the Cajun and Creole kitchens of Louisiana, shrimp and prawns are a common addition to traditional recipes like jambalaya and certain stews.

Combinations traditionally common in New Orleans and southeastern Louisiana are known as " Creole " after the Louisiana Creole people, descendants of French and Spanish settlers, who lived in those areas.

The next most common languages were Creole ( 0. 8 %), and Spanish and Italian ( 0. 7 % each ).

The first and most common is Creole jambalaya ( also called " red jambalaya ").

While most of the words in Mauritian Creole share a common origin with French, they are not always used in the same way.

" Bagarap " ( from " buggered up ") is a common word in Pacific pidgins such as Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea, Brokan ( Torres Strait Creole ) of Australia and Papua and others, meaning " broken ", " hurt ", " ruined ", " destroyed ", " tired ", and so on, as in Tok Pisin " kanu i bagarap ", Brokan " kenu i bagarap ", " the canoe is broken " or Tok Pisin / Brokan " kaikai i bagarap ", " the food is spoiled.

They share a common Language which is French-based Creole, a history which spans four continents and a Religion that is Catholicism.

Black, Negro or Creole are common terms used to describe Afro-Trinidadians.

Examples of pidgins that became fully developed languages include Creole, common to Louisiana, and Gullah, common to the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

Having grown up in the French Quarter's Creole community, Broyard felt he had little in common with the blacks of Brooklyn.

Creole usage is more common, and is less similar to Standard English, as speakers descend the socioeconomic ladder.

Another common pattern found in Virgin Islands Creole is the absence of the letter " s " in the plural, possessive and third person present tense.

Virgin Islands Creole also displays similarities to the English-based pidgin and creole languages of West Africa, due to their common descent from the blending of African substrate languages with English as the superstrate language.