Louisiana Creole<\/h3>
Louisiana Creole (kr\u00e9yol la lwizy\u00e0n; French: cr\u00e9ole louisianais), also called Louisiana French Creole, is a French-based creole language spoken by far fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the state of Louisiana.[1] Due to the rapidly shrinking number of speakers, Louisiana Creole is considered an endangered language.[3]<\/p>
Louisiana was founded and populated by French Immigrants from Canada and France. The colony was established by the Iberville brothers at the headwater of the Mississippi River in 1699.[4] The French colonists were small-scale homesteaders and cattle ranchers who had little success in enslaving the indigenous peoples that inhabited the area; this created a perceived need to import African slaves.[4] It is estimated that a total of 5,500 individuals were brought over from the Senegambia region of West Africa beginning in about 1719. These people originally spoke a Mande language related to Malinke and they were in contact with other languages such as Ewe, Yoruba and Kikongo. The importation of slaves by the French regime continued until 1743.[4]<\/p>
Louisiana Creole is a contact language that arose in the 18th century from interactions between speakers of the lexifier language of Standard French and several substrate or adstrate languages from Africa.[5][4] Prior to its establishment as a Creole, the precursor was considered a pidgin language.[6] The social situation that gave rise to the Louisiana Creole language was unique, in that the lexifier language was the language found at the contact site. More often the lexifier is the language that arrives at the contact site belonging to the substrate\/adstrate languages. Neither the French, the French-Canadians, nor the African slaves were native to the area; this fact categorizes Louisiana Creole as a contact language that arose between exogenous ethnicities.[7] Once the pidgin tongue was transmitted to the next generation as a lingua franca (who were then considered the first native speakers of the new grammar), it could effectively be classified as a creole language.[5][4]<\/p><\/div>\n
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