Editing Creole peoples (section)

== Caribbean ==
{{Further|Afro-Caribbean}}

In many parts of the Southern Caribbean, the term Creole people is used to refer to the mixed-race descendants of Europeans and Africans born in the islands. Over time, there was intermarriage with Amerindians and residents from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America as well. They eventually formed a common culture based on their experience of living together in countries colonized by the French, Spanish, Dutch, and British.

A typical Creole person from the Caribbean has French, Spanish, Portuguese, British, or Dutch ancestry, mixed with sub-Saharan African ethnicities, and sometimes mixed with Native Indigenous peoples of the Americas. As workers from Asia entered the Caribbean, Creole people of colour intermarried with Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Javanese, Filipinos, Koreans, and Hmongs. The latter combinations were especially common in Guadeloupe. The foods and cultures are the result of creolization of these influences.<ref name="Cohen"/>

=== Caribbean Languages ===
{{See also|Languages of the Caribbean|Creole language}}

"Kreyòl" or "Kwéyòl" or "Patois/Patwa" refers to the French-lexicon [[Creole languages]] in the Caribbean, including [[Antillean Creole|Antillean French Creole]], [[Haitian Creole]], and [[Trinidadian Creole]]. Creole also refers to [[Bajan Creole]], [[Bahamian Creole]], [[Belizean Creole]], [[Guyanese Creole]], [[Jamaican Patois]], [[Tobagonian Creole]], [[Trinidadian Creole]] and [[Sranan Tongo]] (Surinamese Creole), among others.

People speak French-lexicon [[Antillean Creole]] in the following islands:<ref>Ethnologue codes Guadeloupean French Creole (spoken in Guadeloupe and Martinique) and Saint Lucian Creole French (spoken in Dominica and Saint Lucia) distinctly, with the respective ISO 639-3 codes: '''gcf''' and '''acf'''. However, it notes that their rate of comprehension is 90%, which would qualify them as dialects of a single language.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avirtualdominica.com/creole.cfm |title=The Creole Language of Dominica |access-date=31 March 2014 |archive-date=2 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402205539/http://www.avirtualdominica.com/creole.cfm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mitchell|first=Edward S.|url=https://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/60530|title=St. Lucian Kwéyòl on Saint Croix: A Study of Language Choice and Attitudes|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4438-2147-6|pages=22|access-date=2022-12-17|archive-date=2017-06-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611194241/http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/60530|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=acf |title=Ethnologue report for language code:acf<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2022-12-17 |archive-date=2005-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050428161945/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=acf |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[St. Lucia]]
* [[Martinique]]
* [[Dominica]]
* [[Guadeloupe]]
* [[Saint Martin (island)|St. Martin]]
* [[Saint-Barthélemy]]
* [[Trinidad and Tobago]]
* [[Grenada]]