Search results for "Creole language" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Maroon War in the 1790s, formed the core of the creole community of Sierra Leone. Slavery ended in Jamaica on August 1, 1834, with the passing ...
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  • of the Aztec and Maya, and by language to the Mesoamerican Linguistic ... by other peoples, mostly Chibcha language groups. They had coalesced ...
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  • spoken are English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), and Urdu. Religions, according to the 2002 census ...
    22 KB (3,015 words) - 15:16, 21 May 2024
  • Lorenzo Combat")), references in English language refer to the event as the "Battle of San Lorenzo." On January 28, 1813, San Martín ...
    40 KB (6,434 words) - 05:43, 10 May 2024
  • The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south ...
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  • translated the old songs from the Slovene language into English, and arranged ... Over the course of time, elements of creole people and afro-venezuelan ...
    27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
  • languages: Portuguese (the official language, spoken by 95 percent), ... The old African creole families that figured prominently in the history ...
    27 KB (4,031 words) - 02:25, 21 April 2023
  • Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... type of language is generally called a creole language. An example of such ...
    112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
  • Indian minorities also exist, as well as Creole-speaking minorities mostly ... the country. French is the official language of the country. ...
    32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
  • Jamaica's language of government and education is English, although the patois form of Jamaican Creole is widely spoken. Most Jamaicans ...
    31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
  • Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Retrieved ... activist, and diplomat. "The ultimate creole intellectual…. A true polymath ...
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  • led an indigenous rebellion from 1780 to 1781. A Creole rebellion in the city of Huánuco arose in 1812. The Viceroyalty of Peru succumbed to campaigns ...
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  • collaboration of the mantuanos, the white creole elite. Meanwhile, the Napoleonic ... The most widely-spoken and official language is Spanish, although ...
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  • has found a correlation of the Sinhalese language with the languages of the ... English was established as the main language for governance, until after ...
    42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
  • to map the change over time of sounds in a language. In the first half ... anthropology, which studies variation in language across time and space and ...
    53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
  • Empire invaded the Viceroyalty, but the Creole population managed to repel ... The only national official language of Argentina is Spanish, though ...
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  • estimated 4,000 Cherokee. In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna ... a collection of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the South ...
    38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
  • Aboriginal English, Torres Strait Creole, Kriol |related= see List ... peoples of New Guinea, and speak a Papuan language. Accordingly, they are not ...
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  • Accordions are played in Tejano music, Cajun and Creole music, zydeco, klezmer, and polka.last=Simonett |first=Helena |title=The accordion in ...
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  • foreign-born, and 5.1 percent reported speaking a language other than English at home. In 2000, there were 2,194,594 households in Missouri, with ...
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