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Krio is spoken by 96 percent of the country's population, [4] [5] and it unites the different ethnic groups in the country, especially in their trade and social interaction with each other. [6] Krio is the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad, [7] and has also heavily influenced Sierra Leonean English. [8]
(audio) A native speaker of Belizean Creole speaking about her ambition as a youth. Sign in Belize Kriol, Caye Caulker Belizean Creole (Belizean Creole: Belize Kriol, Kriol) is an English-based creole language spoken by the Belizean Creole people.
The Gambian Creole people, or Krio or Aku, are a minority ethnic group of Gambia with connections to and roots from the Sierra Leone Creole people. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Gambia the Aku account for about 2% of the population.
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West African Pidgin English arose during the period of the transatlantic slave trade as a language of commerce between British and African slave traders. Portuguese merchants were the first Europeans to trade in West Africa beginning in the 15th century, and West African Pidgin English contains numerous words of Portuguese origin such as sabi ('to know'), a derivation of the Portuguese saber. [3]
Until the early 1980s, Belizean Creoles constituted close to 60% of the population of Belize.But, the demographics of the country have changed markedly. Because of the combined effects of immigration to Belize of people from other Central American countries, and emigration of an estimated 85,000 Creoles, most to the United States, in the early 21st century the Creoles make up only about 25% of ...
A week after wind-whipped wildfires began their deadly rampage through Southern California, investigators search for clues into what started the devastating blazes. The answers may take months or ...
Thomas Alexander Leighton Decker OBE (25 July 1916 – 7 September 1978) was a Sierra Leonean linguist, poet, and journalist. He is best known for his work on the Krio language and for translating Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into the Krio language.