A French creole , or French-based creole language , is a creole for which French is the lexifier . Most often this lexifier is not modern French but rather a 17th- or 18th-century koiné of French from Paris, the French Atlantic harbors, and the nascent French colonies. This article also contains information on French pidgin languages, contact languages that lack native speakers.
2-834: Bourbonnais Creole is the group of French-based creole languages spoken in the western Indian Ocean . The close relation of the languages is from the similar historical and cultural backgrounds of the islands. The name is derived from the former name of Réunion Island : Bourbon Island before 1793. Another name is Mascarene Creole , as the predominant island group is called the Mascarenes . There are six languages in this group: French-based creole languages These contact languages are not to be confused with creolized varieties of French outside of Europe that date to colonial times, such as Acadian , Louisiana , New England or Quebec French . There are over 15.5 million speakers of some form of French-based creole languages. Haitian Creole
4-410: Is the most spoken creole languages in the world, with over 12 million speakers. Throughout the 17th century, French Creoles became established as a unique ethnicity originating from the mix of French, Indian, and African cultures. These French Creoles held a distinct ethno-cultural identity, a shared antique language, Creole French , and their civilization owed its existence to the overseas expansion of
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